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Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5172
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2016 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch today released State Department emails, written 24 hours after the terrorist attack on the Benghazi consulate, in which former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills quickly moved past condolences over the slaying of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens to focus her attention on the design of her private company's logo by prominent international advertising firm GSD&M. Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation against the State Department forced Mills and other Clinton aides to turn over emails from non-State.gov accounts on which they conducted government business.
The emails, obtained under a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, reference the logo design for the "cdmillsGroup," a private company set up by Mills on January 3, 2013, a month before she left her job at the State Department. The Mills "cdmillsGroup" logo discussion includes another government employee, Jean-Louis Warnholz, then-State Department senior advisor to Hillary Clinton. (Warnholz would go on to be a business partner with Ms. Mills in another company.)
The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed on September 4, 2014, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01511)), seeking:
- All records related to notes, updates, or reports created in response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This request includes, but is not limited to, notes taken by then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or employees of the Office of the Secretary of State during the attack and its immediate aftermath.
On September 13, 2012, at 4:31 p.m., Judy Trabulsi, a co-founder of the GSD&M advertising firm, sent Mills the following email:
Cheryl --- I haven't stopped watching the news and my heart breaks for Ambassador Stevens' family, for Hillary (and you) and all those who worked with him. What an amazing life he lived and he had to be among the best Ambassadors in the Foreign Service.
I was going to give you the printouts of the new logos tomorrow (I think they are great) but thought you'd like to look at them over the weekend.
Sending a "heart hug" to you.
Much love – Judy
Trabulsi also attached for Mills another email describing proposed logos:
The first has the cdmillsGroup logo in the sans-serif and the second has it in the serif font. Adjusted the burnt orange color to be more accurate. Both pdfs show the logo, letterhead, business card and envelope. The tag line is printed like a watermark on the letterhead. In addition, as we discussed, you'll find the "double-globe endeavor branding element" used on a brochure cover and two powerpoint slides. Don't hesitate to email me back with any questions.
