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.
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