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FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary emails justifies withholding documents | |
2017-08-30 | |
Ty Clevenger, the lawyer, has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal lawyers disbarred for their handling of her official emails during her time as secretary of state. He’s met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the FBI’s files has been shot down. "You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject," FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday. "It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA," Mr. Hardy wrote. Mrs. Clinton, is the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former chief diplomat, former U.S. senator, and former first lady of both the U.S. and Arkansas. Her use of a secret email account to conduct government business while leading the State Department was front-page news for much of 2015 and 2016, and was so striking that the then-FBI director broke with procedure and made both a public statement and appearances before Congress to talk about the bureau’s probe. In the end, the FBI didn’t recommend charges against Mrs. Clinton, concluding that while she risked national security, she was too technologically inept to know the dangers she was running, so no case could be made against her. | |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#14 "I was afraid they would kill me if I didn't do what they wanted! You know how those drug gangs operate!" |
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-30 21:57 |
#13 That was the USPS investigative service. |
Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-30 19:34 |
#12 Too busy running USPS mail scams. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-30 18:55 |
#11 |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-30 14:51 |
#10 There are some efforts to start petitions to "pressure" the FBI to release this information. Attorney Ty Clevenger and citizen journalist Bill Still are encouraging people to sign these petitions. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-30 14:45 |
#9 Example of the law being made-up on the fly. And then there is the other ploy of using the law to break the law. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-30 13:41 |
#8 Deep state at work. |
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-30 12:59 |
#7 Ah, the fine legalese distinction of the term public's interest, almost poetic in its sophistry! Remember the following gems: “My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says that there was any violation of law whatsoever in the manner in which I asked people to contribute to our reelection campaign.” ―Al Gore |
Posted by: magpie 2017-08-30 12:42 |
#6 I'm coming to the conclusion that the FBI and the CIA need a Stalin style purge |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-08-30 10:34 |
#5 Get a court order? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-30 09:41 |
#4 "You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure..." Because the MSM covered that and related news with a pillow until it stopped moving. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-08-30 09:39 |
#3 Great, we live in a society that pursues crime based on Niellson ratings. |
Posted by: jack salami 2017-08-30 09:37 |
#2 Yet another splendid opportunity for our apparently disengaged Attorney General. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-08-30 02:12 |
#1 That's strange. Nobody asked me. |
Posted by: gorb 2017-08-30 01:28 |