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| State Department Hid Key Clinton Benghazi Email from Judicial Watch |
| 2016-08-26 |
| [Judicial Watch] Washington, DC ‐ The Obama State Department last week admitted it withheld a key Benghazi email of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Judicial Watch since at least September 2014. If the State Department disclosed the email when first supposedly found, Clinton’s email server and her hidden emails would have been disclosed nearly two years ago, before Clinton authorized the alleged deletion of tens of thousands of emails. The developments come in a July 2014 Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit seeking records related to the drafting and use of the Benghazi talking points (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). The lawsuit, which forced the disclosure of the Clinton email records, seeks records specifically from Clinton and her top State Department staff: Copies of any updates and/or talking points given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency concerning, regarding, or related to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Any and all records or communications concerning, regarding, or relating to talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency. Contradicting an earlier statement to the court, an April 18, 2016, State Department letter admits that it found the email at issue in 2014 but was held back in its entirety: Also, upon further review, the Department has determined that one document previously withheld in full in our letter dated November 12, 2014 may now be released in part. The referenced November 12, 2014, letter does not reference any withheld emails. A search declaration suggests the hidden email was found in September 2014 as a result of a search in response to Judicial Watch’s lawsuit. The September 29, 2012, email to Clinton from then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan concerns talking points for Clinton calls with senators about the Benghazi attack. The email contains Clinton’s non-state.gov address. It is in this litigation that U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted "limited discovery" to Judicial Watch into Clinton’s and her aides’ email practices. Judge Lamberth ruled that "where there is evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith, as here, limited discovery is appropriate, even though it is exceedingly rare in FOIA cases." (U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan also granted Judicial Watch discovery into the Clinton email matter. The discovery plan, agreed to by the State Department, is awaiting Judge Sullivan’s approval.) Last week’s document production also includes material from a records cache of thousands of new Clinton State Department records supposedly only discovered in December 2015. The new material shows the State Department compiled extensive Libya/Benghazi-related dossiers on Republican and Democrat senators. "Now we know the Obama administration consciously refused to give up key information about Hillary Clinton’s email in 2014. It covered up this email both from the court and Judicial Watch," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Judge Lamberth was right when he suggested that Obama’s State Department acted in bad faith. This cover-up provided Hillary Clinton enough time to hide potentially thousands of government records. One aim of our court-order discovery will be to get to the bottom of this cover-up." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 I look forward to the day when America can elect an actual American government that is interested in America's best interests, first and foremost. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-08-26 18:24 |
| #8 All this from the most transparent administration in US history! |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-08-26 14:46 |
| #7 I'll go with the '1000 little guys' also. Not sure how much time she's got left on this ole ball. |
| Posted by: Groluting Omurt7346 2016-08-26 11:32 |
| #6 An example must be made. Actually I'd prefer a thousand little guys go to prison than Hillary at this point. Send a message to other little guys that they can't be protected if they break the law. In the process of all of that I'm sure we'll get more than one willing to take her down as well so it'll be double-good. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-08-26 11:00 |
| #5 Most of the people that work for the government in DC need a long, long prison sentence combined with the confiscation of all their assets and ill gotten goods. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-08-26 08:58 |
| #4 #2 - absolutely! Civil Service protection shouldn't stop it, either. Willful malfeasance, illegal activities, and negligence are job-kill |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-08-26 08:43 |
| #3 One wonders, which is more corrupt? The Justice Department or the State Department? Come to think of it, if the Pentagon can't locate billions of dollars, perhaps it takes the cake. |
| Posted by: Glairong Sforza7574 2016-08-26 05:54 |
| #2 A great many people associated with these events need to lose their gov't jobs and spend time in a federal penitentiary. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-26 05:33 |
| #1 When your beltline lawyers triage the evidence and assist the state dept in the redactive arts one could have certain doubts...I do. We seek the light and find the darkness by calculated diversion. |
| Posted by: Alpha2c 2016-08-26 01:54 |