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Abedin Received Top Secret Clearance Renewal in Anticipation of SGE Position
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5188
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that on October 13, 2015, it received new documents from the Department of State, including an email from the agency's top financial disclosure official revealing that then-Secretary Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin failed to produce important financial transaction records of her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, as required by law before obtaining her position as a special government employee (SGE) in 2012. Abedin also failed to provide any information on future employment. The records also show that Abedin received a Top Secret clearance renewal in anticipation of her SGE position.
The records were uncovered as a result of a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Abedin (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)).
In February 2014, the State Department assured Judicial Watch that it had searched several individual offices of the department, including the office of the Executive Secretariat, which would have included the Office of the Secretary of State. Relying upon the State Department's representation that the agency conducted a reasonable search – which Judicial Watch later learned to be untrue, Judicial Watch agreed to dismiss its lawsuit on March 14, 2014. Judge Emmet Sullivan reopened the lawsuit on June 19, 2015, in response to revelations about Clinton's separate email system. (Judicial Watch will be requesting that discovery take place to determine whether all emails from the clintonemail.com sever have been returned to the State Department and have been reviewed to determine whether they are responsive to Judicial Watch's FOIA request.)
Abedin had been repeatedly reminded of the need for the records to be included in the OGE Form 278 Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report as part of her termination agreement with DOS. But, according to a June 5, 2012, email from State Department Financial Disclosures Chief Sarah Taylor, Abedin failed to produce key sections of the records even after her appointment as a SGE had been approved on June 3.
On June 5, 2012, Taylor sent the following email to Heather Samuelson and Marcela Green, both of the State Department's Financial Disclosures Division, concerning Abedin's failure to complete the OGE 278 form with the subject line "RE: disclosure questions:"
Her termination report is Incomplete, Schedule B, Part I and II were left blank. Schedule C, Part II was left blank. I hope she provided all of her spouse's assets. Marcella I believe told him, either Huma or her husband called her yesterday indicating there were more assets. The documents I have do not have the income information, only the value information. What was her date of termination? She needs to be aware her termination report will be going up on a DOS website for the public to view and it must be accurate.
