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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:30 AM Aug 2017

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.
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Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2017 OP
Here we go again. GreenPartyVoter Aug 2017 #1
The Trumper will never let go, he can't stand the fact Clinton won 3 million more vote than he did katmondoo Aug 2017 #2
Hopefully Trump's concern HuskyOffset Aug 2017 #7
He's 71 years old doesn't exercise and eats like shit. Flaleftist Aug 2017 #13
It's not even Trump. It's Judicial Watch. Jim__ Aug 2017 #16
Well com'on...what's the likelihood that the US SoS might have some emails that reference Russia... CincyDem Aug 2017 #31
to remind the terrorist Republicans (their alt-right-nazis) that 9-11 day is around the corner Sunlei Aug 2017 #3
What was the threat Trump isued The Wizard Aug 2017 #4
More time and money spent on Benghazi than on 9/11. I wonder sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #5
A contrary reaction karynnj Aug 2017 #6
I do not think State will ignore it. More tax money down the trump sewer. riversedge Aug 2017 #19
Still the end result is there are likely NO new Clinton emails karynnj Aug 2017 #22
So, continue to try and destroy the Woman who is not President, but should be... Guilded Lilly Aug 2017 #8
It's meaningless Renew Deal Aug 2017 #9
Even if they find any more emails there will be nothing in them worth finding. AJT Aug 2017 #10
This judge is an Obama appointee. Laurian Aug 2017 #11
Why? You think he shouldn't have made a ruling based on law? Demit Aug 2017 #12
No, I'm surprised he doesn't recognize that this is Laurian Aug 2017 #14
.......And that it's being used to distract from the horrors of DJT. Laurian Aug 2017 #15
Neither of those are legal bases for a decision jberryhill Aug 2017 #33
That's a convenient straw-man indicating the possession of a rather strong bias. LanternWaste Aug 2017 #25
What? Demit Aug 2017 #34
Judicial Watch has been after Hillary and Bill since Whitewater. Never could get anything. haveahart Aug 2017 #17
Tweet: Today. Because in a dictatorship you crush your opponents. riversedge Aug 2017 #18
what kills me RussBLib Aug 2017 #20
Declare Judicial Watch a vexatious litigant and end this already jmowreader Aug 2017 #21
Should ignore Captain_New_York Aug 2017 #23
Is there anyway to shut down "Judicial Watch"? Dawson Leery Aug 2017 #24
Is that the twelfth or thirteenth time they have tried this? Not going to find anything this time Squinch Aug 2017 #26
But what about JustAnotherGen Aug 2017 #27
Fine, send the State Dept. on another snipe hunt. JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2017 #28
Why are the RWNJs excited about this? Gothmog Aug 2017 #29
The GOP has to keep it's dwindling base motivated Bladewire Aug 2017 #30
ABR: Anything But Russia briv1016 Aug 2017 #32

katmondoo

(6,454 posts)
2. The Trumper will never let go, he can't stand the fact Clinton won 3 million more vote than he did
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:35 AM
Aug 2017

I predict this to keep going until his death.

Jim__

(14,045 posts)
16. It's not even Trump. It's Judicial Watch.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 10:55 AM
Aug 2017
However, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch argued that the search wasn't good enough because State never tried to search its own systems for relevant messages in the official email accounts of Clinton's top aides.


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)
31. Well com'on...what's the likelihood that the US SoS might have some emails that reference Russia...
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 01:46 PM
Aug 2017


...that's just silly.

The Wizard

(12,482 posts)
4. What was the threat Trump isued
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:39 AM
Aug 2017

to get the Judge to play along? How many more times be fore we lock up Trump for Presidential malpractice?

sinkingfeeling

(51,279 posts)
5. More time and money spent on Benghazi than on 9/11. I wonder
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:40 AM
Aug 2017

how the victims' relatives feel about the obsession with Benghazi.

karynnj

(59,475 posts)
6. A contrary reaction
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:40 AM
Aug 2017

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.

karynnj

(59,475 posts)
22. Still the end result is there are likely NO new Clinton emails
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:33 PM
Aug 2017

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)
8. So, continue to try and destroy the Woman who is not President, but should be...
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:45 AM
Aug 2017

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?


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AJT

(5,240 posts)
10. Even if they find any more emails there will be nothing in them worth finding.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:47 AM
Aug 2017

Let them keep looking (like fools).

Laurian

(2,593 posts)
14. No, I'm surprised he doesn't recognize that this is
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 10:40 AM
Aug 2017

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.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
25. That's a convenient straw-man indicating the possession of a rather strong bias.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 01:06 PM
Aug 2017

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...?

 

haveahart

(905 posts)
17. Judicial Watch has been after Hillary and Bill since Whitewater. Never could get anything.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 11:22 AM
Aug 2017

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)
18. Tweet: Today. Because in a dictatorship you crush your opponents.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:23 PM
Aug 2017







Victoria Brownworth? @VABVOX

Today.
Because in a dictatorship you crush your opponents.

Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails

RussBLib

(8,985 posts)
20. what kills me
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:26 PM
Aug 2017

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)
21. Declare Judicial Watch a vexatious litigant and end this already
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:33 PM
Aug 2017

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)
23. Should ignore
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:42 PM
Aug 2017

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

Squinch

(50,774 posts)
26. Is that the twelfth or thirteenth time they have tried this? Not going to find anything this time
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 01:10 PM
Aug 2017

either, so bring it.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,283 posts)
28. Fine, send the State Dept. on another snipe hunt.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 01:12 PM
Aug 2017

Good luck finding emails that haven't already been found.

FUD and Fury.

 

Bladewire

(381 posts)
30. The GOP has to keep it's dwindling base motivated
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 01:42 PM
Aug 2017

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
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