Federal Judge Opens Discovery Into Clinton Email Usage

[I B Hankering]

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Federal Judge Opens Discovery Into Clinton Email Usage


(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that, in a ruling excoriating both the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ordered both agencies to join Judicial Watch in submitting a proposed schedule for discovery into whether Hillary Clinton sought to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a private email system and whether the State Department acted in “bad faith” by failing to disclose knowledge of the email system. The decision comes in a FOIA lawsuit related to the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Specially, Lamberth ruled:

… the Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into (a) whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA; (b) whether the State Department’s attempts to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and (c) whether State has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s requests.

Terming Clinton’s use of her private email system, “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency,” Lamberth wrote in his MEMORANDUM OPINION:

… his [President Barack Obama’s] State and Justice Departments fell far short. So far short that the court questions, even now, whether they are acting in good faith. Did Hillary Clinton use her private email as Secretary of State to thwart this lofty goal [Obama announced standard for transparency]? Was the State Department’s attempt to settle this FOIA case in 2014 an effort to avoid searching – and disclosing the existence of – Clinton’s missing emails? And has State ever adequately searched for records in this case?

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At best, State’s attempt to pass-off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence. At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this Court.

Turning his attention to the Department of Justice, Lamberth wrote:

The current Justice Department made things worse. When the government last appeared before the Court, counsel claimed, ‘it is not true to say we misled either Judicial Watch or the Court.’ When accused of ‘doublespeak,’ counsel denied vehemently, feigned offense, and averred complete candor. When asked why State masked the inadequacy of its initial search, counsel claimed that the officials who initially responded to Judicial Watch’s request didn’t realize Clinton’s emails were missing, and that it took them two months to ‘figure out what was going on’… Counsel’s responses strain credulity. [citations omitted]

The Court granted discovery because the government’s response to the Judicial Watch Benghazi FOIA request for Clinton emails “smacks of outrageous conduct.”

Citing an email (uncovered as a result of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit) that Hillary Clinton acknowledged that Benghazi was a terrorist attack immediately after it happened, Judge Lamberth asked:

Did State know Clinton deemed the Benghazi attack terrorism hours after it happened, contradicting the Obama Administration’s subsequent claim of a protest-gone-awry?

(Judicial Watch)

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[themystic]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

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Fake News IB. You really need to use better sources. At least use Fox

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/judicial-watch/

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by themystic

Fake News IB. You really need to use better sources. At least use Fox

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/judicial-watch/

Not FAKE NEWS. Judicial Watch quoted Judge Lamberth verbatim. hildebeest is about to get the colonoscopy Comey avoided giving her.

[themystic]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Not FAKE NEWS. My source quoted Judge Lamberth verbatim. hildebeest is about to get the colonoscopy Comey avoided giving her.

Ok IB. "Lock her up Lock her Up Lock her up". Lets see what gets more play, The Mueller Investigation or Hillary's emails. I would rather read a story about the bar code inventor than to listen to 5 more minutes of Hillary's fucking email. Who the fuck is Judge Lamberth? Is that Judge Wapners cousin or something? Judge Judy's brother? The judge on The Apprentice?

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by themystic

Ok IB. "Lock her up Lock her Up Lock her up". Lets see what gets more play, The Mueller Investigation or Hillary's emails. I would rather read a story about the bar code inventor than to listen to 5 more minutes of Hillary's fucking email. Who the fuck is Judge Lamberth? Is that Judge Wapners cousin or something? Judge Judy's brother? The judge on The Apprentice?

You really should have heard of Judge Lamberth. He is the one that's going to carve hildebeest's ass a serve it on a silver platter, and there ain't a damn thing Odumbo, Lynch, Comey, Clapper, or Mueller can do about it.

[themystic]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

You really should have heard of Judge Lamberth. He is the one that's going to carve hildebeest's ass a serve it on a silver platter, and there ain't a damn thing Odumbo, Lynch, Comey, Clapper, or Mueller can do about it.

So is it ok for me to bring up Obama, Lynch, Comey, Clapper and Mueller? They are part of this story? I don't want to hijack your thread. Can I bring up Sully the flying dog?

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by themystic

So is it ok for me to bring up Obama, Lynch, Comey, Clapper and Mueller? They are part of this story? I don't want to hijack your thread. Can I bring up Sully the flying dog?

All of those, except the dog, were culpable.

"… his [President Barack Obama’s] State and Justice Departments fell far short. So far short that the court questions, even now, whether they are acting in good faith. Did Hillary Clinton use her private email as Secretary of State to thwart this lofty goal [Obama announced standard for transparency]? Was the State Department’s attempt to settle this FOIA case in 2014 an effort to avoid searching – and disclosing the existence of – Clinton’s missing emails? And has State ever adequately searched for records in this case?

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"At best, State’s attempt to pass-off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence. At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this Court." Judge Lamberth.

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[dilbert firestorm]

It took Judicial Watch to get things moving....

[gnadfly]

"Stay tuned!"

[WTF]

Somebody needs to remind yall that Clinton is not President.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by WTF

Somebody needs to remind yall that Clinton is not President.

Thank God and Trump! But hildebeest is an unindicted criminal.

Judge Lamberth has ruled. Tick, tick, tick.

[WTF]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Thank God and Trump! But hildebeest is an unindicted criminal.

Judge Lamberth has ruled. Tick, tick, tick.

Trump is your God.

And nobody cares about Clinton....she is done politically. Kinda like the Bushs.

Except for their dog Scully.

Evidently he has your vote.

[themystic]

Originally Posted by WTF

Trump is your God.

And nobody cares about Clinton....she is done politically. Kinda like the Bushs.

Except for their dog Scully.

Evidently he has your vote.

You have to admit a flying dog is pretty impressive. And he knows what a grocery store scanner is. Hes also in touch with the people. Did you see him at the funeral? He got more Press than Tump. I wonder if he thanks the Saudis for low dog food prices

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by WTF

And nobody cares about Clinton....she is done politically.

But here you are defending her fat, criminal ass. Judge Lamberth has ruled. Tick, tick, tick.

Originally Posted by themystic

You have to admit a flying dog is pretty impressive. And he knows what a grocery store scanner is. Hes also in touch with the people. Did you see him at the funeral? He got more Press than Tump. I wonder if he thanks the Saudis for low dog food prices

You just watch and listen to the wrong talking-heads in the lib-retard lame-stream media. Laura Bush and Jeb Bush were very laudatory in the their praise of Donald J and Ivanka Trump.

[nevergaveitathought]

her domestics know, and her flunkies know, and you know, and they know, and I know, and everyone knows

that Clinton is a foul mouthed, pathological lying criminal on many fronts

but the news media wont report it and hound her like they would do a republican with only one tenth of the sliminess

unless that would happen, all her evilness, including her doj and fbi and state dept protectors, stand a good chance to just be a shoulder shrug

just look at her defenders here and their total lack of objectivity