Judicial Watch Statement on State Department OIG Report on Hillary Clinton’s Email Practices

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the recently released report by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email practices:

It was Judicial Watch’s litigation that almost certainly forced the State Department to publicly disclose Hillary Clinton’s secret email account that is now the subject of a scathing Inspector General Report. A statement by the State Department in a February 2, 2015, status report in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit was the first notice to the public and the court that State had failed to thoroughly search all of Clinton’s email records: “[The State Department] has discovered that additional searches for documents potentially responsive to the FOIA must be conducted.” That statement was the first acknowledgement of Clinton’s secret email. And now, nearly a year and a half later, the State Department’s own Inspector General is confirming the gravity of Clinton’s end run around the law. Judicial Watch already uncovered much of the information cited in this report.  But the OIG report will be helpful in upcoming questioning of witnesses about the Clinton email matter.