A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. State Department and Department of Justice must submit a schedule for discovery into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and whether the State Department acted in “bad faith” for failing to disclose knowledge of the server, according to Judicial Watch.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth called Clinton’s use of a private email system, “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency,” and ruled:
… the Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into (a) whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA; (b) whether the State Department’s attempts to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and (c) whether State has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s requests.
Lamberth also slammed the Obama State and Justice Departments, saying they “fell far short:”
… his [President Barack Obama’s] State and Justice Departments fell far short. So far short that the court questions, even now, whether they are acting in good faith. Did Hillary Clinton use her private email as Secretary of State to thwart this lofty goal [Obama announced standard for transparency]? Was the State Department’s attempt to settle this FOIA case in 2014 an effort to avoid searching – and disclosing the existence of – Clinton’s missing emails? And has State ever adequately searched for records in this case?
…At best, State’s attempt to pass-off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence. At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this Court.
The judge also said the current Department of Justice “made things worse:”
Excuuuuuse me??? Most transparent administration EVAR!!!
Please please please make this happen.
Yeah yeah yeah. And just like Lucy in the Charlie Brown strip, the “ball” will be pulled away and Hillary & Company will waltz away scot-free….again.
The only way she will get what she deserves is when she stumbles down a flight of stairs and breaks her crooked neck.
Until I see an honest investigation into the Clinton’s, you can quit running these stories. Nothing happens and nothing changes.
Look at Flynn and look at Comey. Republicans and democrats are treated completely different.
ya, i dont know. Fool me once and all that.
Judicial Watch is doing the job we pay los federales to do.
God Speed Judicial Watch. A grateful nation urges you onwards to truth and justice.
None dare call it Treason.
All I see is pacification for those that adhere to the LAW and would like to think this country is being propelled by the laws that were meant for ALL AMERICANS.
And NO, we ARE NOT seeing this.
The continuation towards REVOLUTION is apparent and seemingly necessary.
Haters gonna hate. Elites gonna elite.
Neither will be held to account.
Good luck waiting for Judgement Day.
The DOJ and the FBI may have not seen this coming. Their spin designers will be working overtime to get this fire knocked down unless they break out their favorite tool, the blackout redaction pen.
“unless they break out their favorite tool, the blackout redaction pen.”
…they’re not even that subtle any more. Now, they just seize your privileged communications with your lawyer and take a whistleblower’s documents blatantly and openly, and DARE you to STOP them…
Decades old, yea, now it will rear it’s reality, sure it will.
More offensive than the MSM presenting the ‘unity’ in support of the now dead elder Bush. Fingers locked for it to be. Nah,, just more PR BS.
“must submit a schedule for discovery into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and whether the State Department acted in “bad faith”.
The condition of “must” eliminates this ever happening.
True to the nature of the Left, the Clintons will be thrown under the bus.
Like a Serpent shedding it’s old skin, the Left will shed the Clintons.
They are an acceptable loss to achieve the socialist goal