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"In time, historians will likely document that the Clintons and Obamas entered office in January 2009 with a grand plan to transform America's relations with key powers, especially in the Middle East," Ortel said. "This plan involved toppling national leaders in many nations by fomenting local uprisings using clandestine resources, in actions that were not likely validly authorized by Congress, as is certainly required under US laws".

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"It seems as if the world is watching a modern day mafia drama, where so many members of the government bureaucracy across the political system are doing their level best to resist exposing the true contours of this scandal, having sworn blood oaths.



"For much lesser offenses involving mishandling classified information, numerous government employees and contractors have suffered jail sentences and other penalties, ruining many careers. Yet, the Clintons, the Obamas, and the Bushes seem impervious to serious inquiry.



"In the US, laws and regulations pertaining to Freedom of Information Act requests need to be modernised. Government officials must not be permitted to use 'alias' emails of any type, or to communicate via email using nefarious means, including via the 'draft' folder. Penalties for committing offenses need to be more severe than they currently are."

Lamberth's Ruling as a Potential Breakthrough in Clinton Email Case

"Let us hope that Judicial Watch, Judge Lamberth and others continue to capture the public interest, so that justice may be served, at long last," Ortel said. "Members of dynastic political families who engage in, and cover up criminal activities certainly are not too big to jail, in an America that adheres to and honours our founding ideals."

The recent ruling by US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth may become a breakthrough in the 5-year long Clinton email scandal, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, asking how it happened thatsays Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel, commenting onOn 15 January, US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that former national security adviser Susan Rice, former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, fmr. secretary of state Clinton's former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff Jacob Sullivan, and FBI official E.W. Priestap must answer the watchdog's written questions about the State Department's response to the deadly 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya The Wall Street analyst noted thatis "an old gambit, going back centuries, even millennia".According to Ortel, "it is certainly odd to see in the US that many senior Democrats and Republicans today who were so active in the Anti-Vietnam War movement were among those so willing to foment destabilising and seemingly unending conflicts in so many places".the investigative journalist responded.Previously, it was thought that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was merely "sloppy" while conducting the government business via her private server and unsecured devices. For her part, the ex-government official claimed that she had used the controversial email system for the "purpose of convenience".However, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton threw this assumption into question, suggesting thatfollowing Bill's tenure as US President from January 1993 through January 2001", Ortel emphasised. "From what I can tell, the system evidently adopted by the Clintons fell laughably outside protocols rigorously employed throughout the highest levels of our government."The investigative journalist elaborated thataccording to publicly available sources,"Transmissions are absolutely not supposed to be copied, edited, or removed from these facilities as apparently happened while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State and until her people turned over a portion of such materials to investigators late in 2014", he highlighted.Ortel asks a number of questions, in particular:He stressed that it's important to find out how much former president Barack Obama, his staff and the FBI/CIA knew about all this.Although the Clinton email scandal erupted back in 2014, it is only now that it has been officially qualified asby Judge Lamberth.Ortel said, commenting on the issue:"One hopes the Lamberth ruling, and the magnitude of the potential criminal conspiracy that seems ongoing will rekindle public interest in telling the whole story here", the investigative journalist said when asked whether one could regard the federal judge's ruling as a breakthrough in the Clinton emailgate case.However, "to date, the Western 'mainstream' media is exhausting itself (and its credibility) spewing out maniacal anti-Trump hit pieces 24/7 while ignoring stories that seem, to me, far bigger than Watergate".Citing experts' opinion, Ortel presumed that