More previously undisclosed State Department emails related to Benghazi have surfaced in a federal court filing, offering a public accounting of at least some of the records still being sought by congressional investigators. The filing Monday in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the conservative group Citizens United describes about a dozen Benghazi-related […]
Citizens United President David N. Bossie Statement: The State Department failed to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order requiring them to release Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin’s emails by September 13th in response to Citizens United’s FOIA lawsuit. Having failed to meet their obligations, the State Department is now asking the Court to reward their poor […]
An aide to Bill Clinton asked the State Department in 2012 about the former president potentially delivering a paid speech to an Iranian government-tied group that has pushed for an end to all U.S. sanctions against Tehran, according to an email exclusively obtained by Fox News. The email request, in June 2012, came during a […]
Today’s newly released State Department email is our second example to date indicating Bill Clinton’s apparent support for doing business with entities with ties to the Iranian regime. The most troubling issue with today’s email is that the event in question would not only have been a paid speech for President Clinton, but also a […]
We are pleased that Senator John Cornyn has joined Citizens United in calling for a Special Counsel to investigate the troubling Hillary Clinton email allegations. As a former judge and Texas state Attorney General, Senator Cornyn knows a clear conflict of interest when he sees one. Citizens United called for an impartial special counsel to […]
“Today Citizens United filed our opposition to the government’s motion to consolidate our FOIA lawsuits with nearly thirty other cases. The government’s request is little more than a stunt designed to delay the public release of Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills’ emails. The thirty lawsuits the government seeks to “coordinate” have no common issues of […]
On September 10, 2001, our leaders in Washington were happy to be debating things like Kennedy-Boehner education reform and McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. Despite the 1998 terrorist attacks on our embassies in Africa and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, Republicans and Democrats alike were still relying largely on the oceans that separate us […]
A Clinton Foundation official asked an aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if the government would allow the well-connected charity to accept a donation from an oil company with extensive ties to Iran. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, did not deny the request when she received it in August 2012, instead asking the […]
As Congress prepares to return from summer recess this week, my organization, Citizens United, conducted a poll of a cross-section of our national membership asking what issue lawmakers on Capitol Hill should focus on next. We followed that query up with a question regarding congressional term limits. The results of the poll should be both […]
Bullies with government power always seem to know how to be creative in censoring their critics, which is one reason why we have the First Amendment as part of our nation’s fundamental and paramount law over government itself. In the 1950s, many politicians wanted to silence the civil rights movement. Doing their bidding, Alabama Attorney […]
Bill Clinton’s foundation, which sought but failed to receive State Department approval for him to give speeches tied to North Korea and the Congo, also asked that the head of a Malaysian oil company doing business with Iran be let into the United States, unsealed emails reveal. The Clinton Foundation sought the go-ahead for Shamsul […]
Citizens United goes on the record discussing newly released State Department emails through multiple FOIA lawsuits.