Legal group submits plan to depose 7 top Clinton, State Dept. aides in email battle

[Jarqui]

59. Because it is news. Not good or great news but news just the same.

It's been proposed that 7 of Clinton's staff testify in this FOIA case related to the emails. Hillary herself may get called. In this article, it tells us who the plaintiff wants to testify - that is news - particularly when it includes Huma and Cheryl. And this can affect Hillary.

An outfit sympathetic to the right filed this lawsuit - one of 38 active lawsuits for Clinton information. This lawsuit is a little different because it's the one that triggered a whole bunch of this email fiasco and delivered copies of all Hillary's emails that were not deleted or classified. On that basis alone, it probably is not a bad thing to keep an eye on. A right wing sympathetic organization may have started this but the court has accepted the legality of their complaint to the extent the judge wants closer examination. The judge is accepting the plaintiff's legal argument that there potentially has been some stalling. The judge wants to get to the bottom of it with the testimony of people who were close to Clinton or maybe Hillary herself, to sort out why it took two years to get the emails when the FOIA limits are normally far shorter.

The bad news isn't so much the civil suit. In part, it's the timing. Clinton's State Department employees are probably going to be testifying or pleading the 5th during the Democratic convention - which might suck some of the air out of the Democratic convention. And the plaintiff has reserved the right to call Hillary to testify - which is also news because if she has to plead the 5th, her campaign would be in serious trouble. On that basis, I think we should pay attention to this case.