State Department refuses to back Hillary Clinton attempt to avoid deposition – IOTW Report

State Department refuses to back Hillary Clinton attempt to avoid deposition

JTN: The State Department on Monday rejected Hillary Clinton’s effort to avoid depositions for herself and her former chief of staff in a lawsuit brought by the government watchdog organization Judicial Watch.

The former Secretary of State and her former top aide Cheryl Mills are seeking a writ of mandamus to avoid a judge’s order requiring their testimony in an open records case involving Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business.

“The government did not seek and thus does not support the extraordinary relief of mandamus due to the unique circumstances of this case,” reads the State Department’s response signed by multiple members of the Justice Department.Read more

“One aspect of the district court’s rulings, although not central to the pending petition, is of particular concern to the government: assertions that the government acted in bad faith in litigating this FOIA request are wholly without basis,” the Department’s response says. read more

11 Comments on State Department refuses to back Hillary Clinton attempt to avoid deposition

  1. Hillary’s well experienced at giving testimony without actually giving any information.

    Don’t expect much to come from it if she actually gets deposed, maybe expect somewhere between very little and nothing.

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  2. …aaaand, there’s the Butcher of Baghdad, still guilty as sin and free as a bird.

    …You know, they aren’t going to be able to investigate her further because the Coronavirus is a threat to her elderly, sickly, considerably large azz, and they can’t socially distance properly in a deposition, and the courts should be shut down anyway because, Coronavirus, and she’ll say why in the hell are you investigating ME when TRUMP needs to be impeached for allowing the Coronavirus to happen, annnnd “what difference does it make anyway”…

    …sad thing is, she’s probably RIGHT about the last one. By the time the foot-dragging is over, even in the EXTREMELY unlikely event she ACTUALLY gets deposed, Tom Fitton doesn’t turn up suicided by self-decapitation, she doesn’t testify that she forgot everything during her State Department years, AND the Democrats don’t steal BOTH houses and use that to blow up the President…it will be too late.

    The statute of limitations will have run out.

    …Remember, Democrats demand slavish devotion to the law, when it suits THEIR purposes, and this is likely been a “B” goal all along if impeachment failed…

    Besides, you can’t EVER question someone who WAS running for President, IS running for President, every THOUGHT about running for President, ever KNEW someone who was running for President, ever slept in the same BUILDING with anyone ELSE who was, or is, or may be President, or something because it’s OBVIOUSLY an attempt to interfere with elections, just ASK a Democrat, THEY’LL tell you…

    …of course, that rule applies ONLY to Democrats.

    …If it’s a REPUBLICAN, prosecute IMMEDIATELY.

    …Because not being a Democrat is now a crime.

    …so sayeth the Democrats…

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  3. When ever I read articles about Hillary and Judicial watch I mentally play the “JAWS” shark music in my head.

    I do not know what will come of all of it but I LOVE the fact that as the old “Contagious” C–NT AGES she is being chased, tormented, and shamed wherever she goes.

    No peace for the lying, uranium selling, wife of a sex abuser.

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  4. I suspect that one of the things that Clinton is concerned about is just how much Judicial Watch already knows (and can prove). If she gets caught in a lie (or several) that will make the front pages whether the media want it to or not. So will pleading the 5th although I’m not sure that’s available in this sort of case. Finally, if she pleads a faulty memory too many times she risks incurring the wrath of the Judge who seems to be far less inclined to roll over for her then previous ones have been.

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  5. It’s worth it if it means she has to part with some of her ill-gotten brass to a bunch of attorneys — and it will take a bunch — and her life is inconvenienced. This time around she doesn’t have anything to barter with to get free representation. Besides there’s always hope that because she is just that much older and she and Mills will be unable to keep their lying stories straight. It’s harder to remember the details of a lie because it’s a product of imagination.

    If the State dept. had caved on this, I would be sincerely livid.

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