Clinton’s State Dept. calendar missing scores of entries

The calendar was among files turned over to AP by the State Department after the news outlet filed a lawsuit to access Clinton’s records from her tenure as Secretary of State.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has insisted that she has fully cooperated and turned over every work-related email that passed through her secret private server, which is now the subject of an FBI investigation.

AP compared Clinton’s calendar with the daily event planning briefs given to the then-Secretary of State by her aides. Add to that an Associated Press report published on Friday calling into question omissions in her official State Department calendar. They then found over 60 events shown on the planning schedules were either completely left off the official calendar, or barely noted as “private meetings” without providing any further details such as the names of the people that met with her.

The discrepancies “simply reflect a more detailed version in one version as compared to another, all maintained by her staff”, Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said Thursday.

Most of all, they’re gambling that everyone will forget Clinton is under scrutiny for deleting some 30,000 emails on her own judgment that they were personal messages, unrelated to her work as Secretary of State.

One calendar entry omitted the identities of a dozen major Wall Street and business leaders who met with Clinton at a private breakfast at the New York Stock Exchange in September 2009. Among those whose names were omitted from her calendar were longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal, lobbyist and former Clinton White House chief of staff Thomas “Mack” McLarty and Clinton campaign bundler Haim Saban.

The AP has been seeking Clinton’s calendar and schedules from the State Department since August 2013.

The State Department censored both sets of documents for national security and other reasons, but those changes were made after the documents were turned over to the State Department at the end of Clinton’s tenure.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s historical record of her daily activities while she was secretary of state is missing “scores of names and events”, according to a review by the Associated Press. At the time, emails sent from Clinton’s BlackBerry device and routed through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of her NY home were being blocked by the State Department’s spam filter.

Clinton Foundation contributors apparently participated in meetings not listed or detailed in Clinton’s calendar. The guests lobbied the State Department while Clinton was in charge, and made donations to the Clinton Foundation.

Some of those favors were seen in the emails that Clinton provided to the State Department in December 2014.

The AP states that none of this amounts to a violations of any laws, rather it suggests the Clinton was, once again, trying to keep some of her close interactions with campaign donors away from prying eyes.

In attempting to explain why some meeting schedules were scrubbed of attendees’ details, Fallon said that numerous iterations of her schedules were in existence and that any discrepancies are innocent.

“It’s clear that any outside influence needs to be clearly identified in some way to at least guarantee transparency. That didn’t happen”, Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, told AP.

Clinton also noted that Honeywell’s CEO David Cote complained to her about export regulations. Blackstone, Honeywell, Omnicom, and DuPont lobbied the State Department that year. Schwarzman and Frankfort have personally donated to the Clinton Foundation, and most of the other firms contributed to it.