Judge orders more discovery in Clinton emails FOIA case

[Elderberry]

Washington Examiner by Daniel Chaitin & Jerry Dunleavy August 23, 2019

A years-long legal fight over Hillary Clinton's emails took another turn when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered additional fact-finding from State Department officials on Thursday.

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth authorized nearly all of what conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch sought in a recent status report for its case related to the former secretary of state's unauthorized email server, including the depositions of seven department officials over the next four months. This includes Jamie Bair, an attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser who was assigned to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information request and its lawsuit, and Tasha Thian, a State Department records officer who wrote about Clinton's email practices in a 2018 book. Three of the officials' names are redacted.

Two requests from Judicial Watch that remain pending are for depositions with Clinton herself and her former chief of staff Cheryl Mills. Their attorneys have 30 days to oppose, and Judicial Watch will then have about two weeks to respond.

Written sets of questions, known as interrogatories, will also be sent to the State Department and Justice Department regarding Judicial Watch's FOIA request. Document requests were also granted, which touch on possible email exchanges related to Clinton and her associates, including an "after action memo" created by Clinton attorney Heather Samuelson around December 2014 to memorialize her team’s search for and processing of the Clinton emails. Judicial Watch said lawyers for the Justice and State Departments oppose their request for more records.

More: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judge-orders-more-discovery-in-clinton-emails-foia-case

[rangerrebew]

August 30, 2019 | Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch Victory: Court Grants Significant New Discovery in Clinton Email Case

Hillary Clinton Has 30 Days to Oppose Judicial Watch Request to Question Her Under Oath

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge granted seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private, unauthorized email server. Hillary Clinton and her former top aide and current lawyer Cheryl Mills were given 30 days to oppose being deposed by Judicial Watch (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)).

The court rejected Justice and State Department arguments to protect Clinton and the agencies from additional discovery and ordered agency lawyers to respond to Judicial Watch’s questions about their knowledge of the Clinton email issue. The court granted all of Judicial Watch’s requested discovery but gave Clinton and Mills 30 days to file any opposition to the requests to question them in person under oath.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-victory-court-grants-significant-new-discovery-in-clinton-email-case/

[rangerrebew]

And what, pray tell, has the DOJ been doing about the same case - besides nothing?

[Sanguine]

And what, pray tell, has the DOJ been doing about the same case - besides nothing?

We are lucky to have an organization pursuing government because the DOJ is not going to.

[Cyber Liberty]

We are lucky to have an organization pursuing government because the DOJ is not going to.

It could be We The People can be an ultimate check on the National Government?

[Sanguine]

It could be We The People can be an ultimate check on the National Government?

Has to be.

[truth_seeker]

Hasn't Trump ordered declassification of certain documents, and yet the DOJ/FBI have not produced them to date?

It seems as if the DOJ/FBI etc.  have become independent.

The AG, IG, seem almost powerless.

For the time the SI investigator Mueller was plodding along, it seemed possible strategic, to wait forr the documents; eg. not press matters.

Now there seems to be no excuse.

[Cyber Liberty]

Hasn't Trump ordered declassification of certain documents, and yet the DOJ/FBI have not produced them to date?

It seems as if the DOJ/FBI etc.  have become independent.

The AG, IG, seem almost powerless.

For the time the SI investigator Mueller was plodding along, it seemed possible strategic, to wait forr the documents; eg. not press matters.

Now there seems to be no excuse.

Bureaucrats are dragging their feet.  It's like when Brennan was supposed to be stripped of his clearance, which, AFAIK, he still has.