After a first read it seems like there's not much here. Seems like more Russia stuff than Pizza stuff. Some digging is required. One message stood out to me: (Doc No. C06426462 pg. 28)
Wanted to speak for a moment about Israel's announcement of changes to its Gaza policy.
As you know, Israel will be spelling out a new policy in the next few hours.
They have come a long way, and gone well beyond where we expected them to go. Clearly, they can go further. For example, there is no direct reference to increasing commerce between Gaza and the West Bank - something that the PA would like to see. We should keep pressing the Israelis to take additional steps such as this.
I know the Quartet envoys are discussing a statement in response. I believe a statement is important, because this is such a central issue and exactly the sort of moment where the Quartet's voice should be heard. It can also add momentum to the process of reform of this policy.
[...]
Through a properly balanced statement that responds positively to the specific steps Israel has announced and challenges them to imlement swiftly and to go further, the Quartet will be doing its job, and can serve as an oversight mechanism to make sure there is follow-through.
[...]
I hope you will instruct your Quartet envoy to work with our team on text, and perhaps we can follow up with a principals call tomorrow."
The Quartet refers to the Quartet on the Middle East of The US, EU, Russia, and the UN involved in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The timeline is important to note here. Not one month prior, Obama admin lifted sanctions on Russian state arms export agency, which had been sanctioned for exporting arms to Iran. Sergei Lavrov is the Russian Foreign Minister. MSM articles at the time said the lifting of sanctions was part of a deal to get Russia on board for international sanctions on Iran. Could Lavrov's input on the Quartet's Palestine policy be a part of this deal? pay for play?
Someone commenting on twitter noted that in some of the shorter messages it looks like some words may have been altered rather than removed entirely.
Specifically (Doc No. C06449696 pg. 33).
(emphasis on suspect words/characters)
"From: <BBB Backup>
Sent: Tuesday December 20, 2011 8:51 PM
To: HRC
Subject: Tomorrow
[1st line redacted]
Indonesians cannot talk at 7am or 7:30am so they willgive us other options.
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After a first read it seems like there's not much here. Seems like more Russia stuff than Pizza stuff. Some digging is required. One message stood out to me: (Doc No. C06426462 pg. 28)
(emphasis added)
"From: Sullivan, Jacob J
To: '[email protected]' ; Abedin, Huma
Sent: Sun Jun 20 09:27:19 2010
Subject: Lavrov
Wanted to speak for a moment about Israel's announcement of changes to its Gaza policy.
As you know, Israel will be spelling out a new policy in the next few hours.
They have come a long way, and gone well beyond where we expected them to go. Clearly, they can go further. For example, there is no direct reference to increasing commerce between Gaza and the West Bank - something that the PA would like to see. We should keep pressing the Israelis to take additional steps such as this.
I know the Quartet envoys are discussing a statement in response. I believe a statement is important, because this is such a central issue and exactly the sort of moment where the Quartet's voice should be heard. It can also add momentum to the process of reform of this policy.
[...] Through a properly balanced statement that responds positively to the specific steps Israel has announced and challenges them to imlement swiftly and to go further, the Quartet will be doing its job, and can serve as an oversight mechanism to make sure there is follow-through.
[...] I hope you will instruct your Quartet envoy to work with our team on text, and perhaps we can follow up with a principals call tomorrow."
The Quartet refers to the Quartet on the Middle East of The US, EU, Russia, and the UN involved in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The timeline is important to note here. Not one month prior, Obama admin lifted sanctions on Russian state arms export agency, which had been sanctioned for exporting arms to Iran. Sergei Lavrov is the Russian Foreign Minister. MSM articles at the time said the lifting of sanctions was part of a deal to get Russia on board for international sanctions on Iran. Could Lavrov's input on the Quartet's Palestine policy be a part of this deal? pay for play?
Someone commenting on twitter noted that in some of the shorter messages it looks like some words may have been altered rather than removed entirely.
Specifically (Doc No. C06449696 pg. 33).
(emphasis on suspect words/characters)
"From: <BBB Backup>
Sent: Tuesday December 20, 2011 8:51 PM
To: HRC
Subject: Tomorrow
[1st line redacted]
Indonesians cannot talk at 7am or 7:30am so they will give us other options.
[...]"
That's all I've got. Anyone got any other angles? There may be more docs incoming. http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/JW-v-State-Huma-Weiner-emails-00684-2.pdf. Can anyone solve the puzzle?