Fitton: Clinton Resists Court Order to Produce Memo on Process that Led to Her Mass Email Deletions
From Tom Fitton’s article for Breitbart:
Clinton thinks she can run out the clock on our efforts to get to the bottom of her scandalous email schemes. Recall that she is resisting, through an emergency appeal, a court order to us about her emails.(The appellate hearing on her testimony, btw, has been officially set for June 2.)
Now our Judicial Watch attorneys are to file a motion in federal court to compel her to produce a December 2014 after action memorandum created by her personal attorney, Heather Samuelson, that memorializes the search for and processing of Clinton emails in 2014.
It was Samuelson who reviewed Clintonâs State Department emails, and about half of them were deleted.
The filing comes in our FOIA lawsuit that seeks records concerning âtalking points or updates on the Benghazi attackâ (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State(No. 1:14-cv-01242)). We famously uncovered in 2014 that the âtalking points,â which provided the basis for false statements by then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, were created bythe Obama White House. This JW FOIA lawsuit led directly to the disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015.
In December 2018, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered discovery into whether Clintonâs use of a private email server was intended to stymie FOIA; whether the State Departmentâs intent to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watchâs request. The court also authorized discovery into whether the Benghazi controversy motivated the cover-up of Clintonâs email. The court ruled that the Clinton email system was âone of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.â
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