Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case [View all]
Guess who else has had about enough of this silly crap?
The Obama administration is trying to prevent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from being deposed in an ongoing open records case connected to her use of a private email server.
Late Thursday evening, the Justice Department filed a court motion opposing the Clinton deposition request from conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch, claiming that the organization was trying to dramatically expand the scope of the lawsuit.
Judicial Watch is seeking instead to transform these proceedings into a wide-ranging inquiry into matters beyond the scope of the courts order and unrelated to the FOIA request at issue in this case, government lawyers wrote in their filing, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.
The lawyers wrote that the request to interview Clinton is wholly inappropriate before depositions are finished in a separate case also concerning the email server.
Judicial Watchs FOIA case began as a way to seek documents about talking points related to the 2012 terror attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, but has since grown to encompass wider questions about Clintons use of a personal server while working as secretary of State.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281565-feds-fight-to-prevent-clinton-deposition-in-email-case