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Court: Based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary. (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted discovery to Judicial Watch into former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons email system. The order allows Judicial Watch to

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New documents obtained by Judicial Watch raise questions about the role of Clinton Inc. in the Benghazi debacle, particularly the involvement of Bill Clinton and longtime Clinton hatchet man Sidney Blumenthal. Mrs. Clinton, seeking to ease concerns about her ties to the Clintons powerful political machine, famously pledged as secretary

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Former Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the email probe who struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department, has told the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up, according to an intelligence source close to the case who called him a devastating witness.

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Aficionados of complex financial crime will want a look at a new, never-before-seen document obtained by Judicial Watch. Last month, Judicial Watch released 246 pages of previously undisclosed Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) internal memos on criminal charges against Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater investigation. On February 9, this reporter

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Highly Detailed Order of Proof Names Over 100 Witnesses, Outlines Evidence To Be Used At Trial (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released an unprecedented accounting of the evidence that would have been used at a criminal trial against Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater case. The April 1998 memo by

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(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today announced that District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan will hold a hearing on Judicial Watchs motion for discovery on Tuesday, February 23, 2016. In its motion, Judicial Watch argues that the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deliberately thwarted the Freedom

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A few years before the Obama administration removed Cuba from the U.S. list of nations that sponsor terrorism Hezbollah established an operational base on the communist island, according to intelligence received by Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State. The information comes straight from electronic mail released by the

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(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) letter to U.S. Department of State Principal Deputy Legal Adviser Marry McLeod concerning the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staffs use of private email: The FBI

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Hillary Clinton may or may not be indicted in the State Department emails scandal, but one thing is certain: shes been to this dance before, facing possible criminal charges. Mrs. Clinton may have been involved in a crime in 1986, according to never-before-seen portions of an Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) memorandum in the Whitewater affair obtained by

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Hillary Clinton Forwarded Huma Abedin Classified Info. for Printing (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released nearly 70 pages of State Department records that show that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides, Deputy Chiefs of Staff Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, received and sent classified information

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(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge ordered the State Department to explain how and when new records from the office of Hillary Clinton were located and why they were not identified previously. The court order comes in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking

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Will a grand jury be empaneled by the Justice Department? When will Senator Patrick Leahy, chair of the Judiciary Committee begin an investigation of this matter? November 13, 2012 Blumenthal advised top Obama debate advisor that Romney would falsify, distort, and mangle facts; advised Clinton on Libya turmoil disclosed

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The Castle Grande transactions were crimes Hillary Clinton destroyed her personal records A case of possible obstruction of justice Sources say redacted portions of memoranda contain a draft indictment of Mrs. Clinton Never-before-published prosecution memos from April 1998 say Clintons sworn statements to the RTC, the FDIC, the Senate and

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The loyal aide has spent decades at the presidential contenders side with unparalleled access. But with a powerful Republican senator raising questions about her role in the Clinton-era State Department, Abedin finds herself the latest victim of the Stop Hillary movement.

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Hillary Clinton kept a hectic schedule as the nations top diplomat, juggling international crises, public appearances and high-level meetings.

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Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty, mean enabler …

The remarks are the first time that Trump has raised the former president's alleged affairs and Hillary Clinton's behavior amidst a flurry of accusations since becoming the Republican Party's presumptive nominee. Trump had previously accused Clinton of being an "enabler" to her husband's behavior, but he ramped up his rhetoric on Friday.

"She's been the total enabler. She would go after these women and destroy their lives," Trump said, adding, "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful."

Trump did not expand upon what he believes Clinton did to "destroy" the lives of those women. A message left with the Clinton campaign Friday night was not immediately returned.

The brash billionaire on Friday sought to get ahead of what he believes will be an onslaught of attack ads against him, focusing specifically on sexist remarks he has made.

"So what they're doing is $90 million of ads on Donald Trump and it has to do a lot with the women's issue. But I'm saying to myself, nobody in this country and maybe in the history of this country politically was worse than Bill Clinton with women," Trump said to cheers at a rally here.

Trump predicted the Clinton campaign would use crude comments he has made about women and sex in interviews with talk radio host Howard Stern against him in attack ads.

Trump has used a range of words to describe women he's disagreed with, such as Rosie O'Donnell and Arianna Huffington, including "fat pig," "slob" and "dog."

"Don't forget, I was never going to run for office," Trump said in his defense.

He also retweeted a tweet calling Megyn Kelly a "bimbo" earlier this year, and in the first GOP debate, suggested that Kelly was on her period as the Fox News anchor asked him a prodding question.

And he suggested that then-GOP presidential rival Carly Fiorina was too ugly to be elected last fall: "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?" Trump said during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

Trump defiantly defended himself Friday: "Nobody respects women more than me."

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Hillary Clinton Wants to Put Bill ‘In Charge’ of the Economy

Hillary Clinton has always made known that she wants Bill Clinton to have some kind of role in the White House should she become president, and over the past few weeks, she's begun to reveal more about what exactly that would be.

During a campaign event in Fort Mitchell today, the Democratic presidential candidate was more blunt than ever about what her husband's role would be in a future Clinton administration saying she plans to to put the former president "in charge of economic revitalization."

"My husband, who I'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, 'cause you know he knows how to do it," Clinton told the crowd at an outdoor organizing rally. "And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out."

Clinton made similar remarks earlier this month during her first visit to Kentucky, a state where Bill Clinton remains popular among the largely white, working class voters.

"I've told my husband he's got to come out of retirement and be in charge of this because you know hes got more ideas a minute than anybody I know," she said, while talking about manufacturing and jobs.

Over the course of the campaign, Clinton has repeatedly said she would seek her husband's advice if she takes office.

Last month on ABC's "The View," she had this to say when asked about how she sees his role: "I think he'll I hope he'll have a lot of involvement in starting the economy to really take off."

And last year, in an interview on MSNBC, she said, "He's a great adviser, and he knows as much about the economy and job creation as anyone I could talk to."

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During a speech in Kentucky Sunday she referred to "my husband, who I will put in charge of revitalizing the economy 'cause he knows what he's doing."

The U.S. economy boomed during President Clinton's administration. His economic record is an effective selling point, especially as U.S. growth remains sluggish, and most voters worry about the economy.

During Clinton's eight years as president, the U.S. economy added more than 22 million jobs. That's slightly more jobs than were added during the combined 22-year tenure of the four most recent Republican presidents.

In the spring of 2000, Clinton's final year in office, a greater percentage of Americans had jobs than any time since record-keeping began soon after World War II.

Giving Clinton's policies full credit for boosting the economy isn't entirely fair. The rapid growth of the Internet during his eight years in office greatly increased business productivity and profits and helped to fuel the hiring boom. There was also a bubble in Internet stocks, which poured money into the tech sector and helped spurred hiring.

But government policies did help also. The federal government actually ran surpluses rather than deficits during Clinton's final three years in office, and that reduced the need for government borrowing and helped to keep interest rates relatively low.

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But there are critics on both the right and the left who argue that Clinton's policies laid the groundwork for the economic problems that were to follow.

Many regulations were eliminated during Clinton's administration that had previously prevented commercial banks from moving into investment banking and insurance, which had been the turf of Wall Street firms. Some critics have blamed the loss of those protections for the financial market's meltdown and the need to bail out banks that occurred in 2008.

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The North American Free Trade Agreement, which lowered trade barriers with Mexico and Canada, was signed into law early in the Clinton administration. China and the U.S. also signed a trade accord in 1999 which led to China joining the World Trade Organization. Those moves led to dramatic increases in imports from Mexico and China, which critics say cost U.S. workers their jobs.

Advocates of those deals says that the U.S. economy was bound to lose many of those jobs to lower wage countries even without the trade pacts.

Hillary Clinton's campaign's press secretary Nick Merrill said that her comments don't reflect any decision to name her husband to a some specific post in her administration.

"It would be getting ahead of ourselves to talk about any sort of formalized role for anyone in her administration," he said. "I think that her point has been time and again that he has a lot to offer and it would be foolish not to use that in some capacity. It has not gone any further than that."

Earlier this month in another speech in Kentucky she said, "I told my husband he's got to come out of retirement and be in charge of this because you know he's got more ideas a minute that anybody I know."

CNN's Dan Merica contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (New York) First published May 16, 2016: 8:35 AM ET

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Emails Add to Hillary Clintons Central Problem: Voters Just …

John Locher/Associated Press Hillary Clinton spoke at a rally at Hartnell College on Wednesday in Salinas, Calif.

For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has traveled the country talking to voters about her policy plans. She vowed to improve infrastructure in her first 100 days in office, promised to increase funding for Alzheimers research and proposed a $10 billion plan to combat drug and alcohol addiction.

But as the Democratic primary contest comes to a close, any hopes Mrs. Clinton had of running a high-minded, policy-focused campaign have collided with a more visceral problem.

Voters just dont trust her.

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The Clinton campaign had hoped to use the coming weeks to do everything they could to shed that image and convince voters that Mrs. Clinton can be trusted. Instead, they must contend with a damaging new report by the State Departments inspector general that Mrs. Clinton had not sought or received approval to use a private email server while she was secretary of state.

It is not just that the inspector general found fault with her email practices. The report speaks directly to a wounding perception that Mrs. Clinton is not forthright or transparent.

After months of saying she used a private email for convenience, and that she was willing to cooperate fully with investigations into her handling of official business at the State Department, the report, delivered to Congress on Wednesday, undermined both claims.

Mrs. Clinton, through her lawyers, declined to be interviewed by the inspector general as part of the review. And when staff members raised concerns about the wisdom of her using a nongovernment email address, they were hushed by State Department officials, who instructed them never to speak of the secretarys personal email system again.

In November 2010, when a State Department aide requested she release her personal email address or start using an official address, Mrs. Clinton said she was open to using a second device or email address but added,I dont want any risk of the personal being accessible.

Mrs. Clintons allies on Wednesday jumped on the fact that the report also revealed that Colin Powell, the secretary of state under President George W. Bush, and other State Department officials had also exclusively used personal email accounts. The inspector general documents just how consistent her email practices were with those of other secretaries and senior officials at the State Department, said Brian Fallon, a Clinton spokesman.

But Mr. Powell is not running for president against a likely opponent, Donald J. Trump, who has now adopted the drumbeat of Crooked Hillary.

Crooked Hillary, crooked Hillary, shes as crooked as they come, Mr. Trump said at a rally in Anaheim, Calif.

His attacks came as Mrs. Clinton tried to break through with her own criticism that Mr. Trump had profited from the 2008 housing crisis.

But the Clinton campaigns new effort to define Mr. Trump as a con man who rips off the little guy for his own gain will be met with the trickle of new developments related to Mrs. Clintons private email. The F.B.I. is separately investigating whether Mrs. Clinton and her aides exposed sensitive national security information in their email correspondence. She has already turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department.

And Mrs. Clintons campaign has struggled to put the issue behind her. Mrs. Clinton spent much of last summer insisting she did not need to apologize for keeping a private server in her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. because the practice was allowed. Then, in September, she offered a tortured apology, acknowledging in an interview with ABC News that using a private email server had been a mistake. She added, Im sorry about that.

Mrs. Clinton has long contended that voters care more about issues like equal pay for women, widely available child care, and making college more affordable than how she handled her emails as secretary of state. Even her Democratic primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, tried to squelch the storm over the private server during the first Democratic debate last fall.

But something has seeped into the electorate. A presidential campaign always contends with incoming fire, but it is also designed to serve as an infomercial to present a candidates best attributes. Instead, Mrs. Clinton has gone from a 69 percent approval rating and one of the most popular public figures in the country when she left the State Department in 2013 to having one of the highest disapproval ratings of any likely presidential nominee of a major party.

Roughly 53 percent of voters said they had an unfavorable opinion of Mrs. Clinton in a new ABC-News Washington Post poll. Some 60 percent of voters said they had an unfavorable opinion of Mr. Trump.

When asked if Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump are honest and trustworthy, 64 percent of registered voters replied no, according to a recent New York Times-CBS News poll. Ask voters why they dont trust Mrs. Clinton, and again and again they will answer with a single word: Emails.

I dont believe a word when she says she didnt know what she was doing with those emails, said Debbie Figel, 57. She plans to vote for Mr. Trump.

This email business really concerns me, said John Dunn, 58 of Oneida, N.Y.

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