Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails
Source: Politico
By JOSH GERSTEIN
08/09/2017 10:48 PM EDT
Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack.
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the State Department had not done enough to try to track down messages Clinton may have sent about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11, 2012 an attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, State searched the roughly 30,000 messages Clinton turned over to her former agency at its request in December 2014 after officials searching for Benghazi-related records realized she had used a personal email account during her four-year tenure as secretary.
State later searched tens of thousands of emails handed over to the agency by three former top aides to Clinton: Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan. Finally, State searched a collection of emails the FBI assembled when it was investigating Clinton's use of the private account and server.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/08/09/judge-orders-searches-for-clinton-benghazi-emails-241470
MY heart just sank as I read this.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)katmondoo
(6,454 posts)I predict this to keep going until his death.
HuskyOffset
(885 posts)with Hillary's e-mails will end when he is incarcerated.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Maybe we will get lucky.
Jim__
(14,045 posts)They'll get to go through additional emails, and then what they do is leak information that is essentially a lie - e.g. claiming to have found an email that links Hillary to the Russians - and the media prints the leak. When the actual email is turned over, of course, it says nothing like what they claimed.
CincyDem
(6,283 posts)...that's just silly.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The Wizard
(12,482 posts)to get the Judge to play along? How many more times be fore we lock up Trump for Presidential malpractice?
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)how the victims' relatives feel about the obsession with Benghazi.
karynnj
(59,475 posts)Look at what State already did. Can you conceive of any other emails, left out of HRC'S work email give to the SD, the emails from her top aides, the emails found by the FBI.
I can not. That means the TRUMP administration State Department must respond saying everything is out there or not respond to the court.
This will show that the SD did a good non partisan job on this, with political appointees NOT involved in that process. It also should blow the minds of the RW positive that there was a smoking gun on Benghazi. This was a sad exploitation of a tragedy.
riversedge
(69,727 posts)karynnj
(59,475 posts)that could be found by the Trump administration. That would be vindication for Clinton. As to money, the cost was to carefully process all the email before they were put out. I think that meant expanding the group that was normally 12 people to about 50.
One possibility that I don't know about was there may have been a few that were privileged between HRC and PBO.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)while the Cretin male who sits in the White House when not playing golf gets away with openly and belligerently breaking laws, smugly ignoring history, facts, traditions and rules, being an abhorrent oafish ignoramus, malignant stain on humanity in every way and is on course to destroy everything decent and humane about the country and the world...gets every single pass in the book?
...
Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)Let them keep looking (like fools).
Laurian
(2,593 posts)That fact makes this ruling even more confounding.
Demit
(11,238 posts)Laurian
(2,593 posts)a continuation of the right wing's never ending pursuit of Hillary. They have beaten this dead horse long enough and it needs to stop.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)That's a convenient straw-man indicating the possession of a rather strong bias. I'm guessing you'll go so far as to allege the question was sincere, yes...?
Demit
(11,238 posts)haveahart
(905 posts)Still won't give up. They make money from the Right and continue these futile requests for anything on the Clintons. The group itself needs to be investigated.
riversedge
(69,727 posts)Link to tweet
Victoria Brownworth? @VABVOX
Today.
Because in a dictatorship you crush your opponents.
Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails
RussBLib
(8,985 posts)is that Shrubya and Reagan committed all sorts of violations of ethics and law, and the Democrats just turned a blind eye.
"We want to look forward, not backward" said the most tone-deaf party in history.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)How many more times do they have to look for Benghazi emails before someone stands up and says, "you've looked enough times. It's over."
Captain_New_York
(161 posts)1-just a distraction from trumps crimes
2- way for judicial watch to fund raise
3- raw meat for the trumpeters
I do suggest that Hillary start traveling extensively overseas for her own protection. These guys know no limits
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Squinch
(50,774 posts)either, so bring it.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)45/140 and Putin's 'special' relationship?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)Good luck finding emails that haven't already been found.
FUD and Fury.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Bladewire
(381 posts)The GOP has always abused the system to score political points it should be a jail able offense IMO it does nothing but erode our democracy