Can you feel the outrage building yet? Imagine if this DoJ was investigating and prosecuting the mafia…oh wait….
From The Daily Caller:
Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.
If the court permits the delay, the public won’t be able to read the communications until October 2018, about 22 months into her prospective first term as President. The four senior Clinton aides involved were Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.
The State Department originally estimated that 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged by the aides with the Clinton Foundation. But a series of “errors” the department told the court about Wednesday evening now mean the total has grown to “34,116 potentially responsive documents.”
U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a President Obama-appointed judge, had previously ordered the State Department to release the requested documents by July 21. But Department of Justice lawyers informed Contreras Wednesday night that “the [State] department discovered errors in the manner in which the searches had been conducted in order to capture documents potentially responsive to plaintiff’s request.” The motion was filed by Justice Department attorney Joseph Borson on behalf of the State Department.
Borson also provided new details about how few resources the State Department has devoted to answering 106 separate Freedom of Information Act requests that are pending before it, many of them ordered by federal judges. Only 71 “part-time” retired foreign service officers are being used to review all of the pending FOIA requests.
Combine this with Loretta Lynch’s absurd “coincidental” meeting with Bill Clinton at the Phoenix Airport and you have shenanigans going on that would make Richard Nixon blush.
This is where I tend to get frustrated with GOP leadership. This is a situation where every prominent Republican, particularly GOP leaders, should be on every network and cable news show and quoted in every newspaper outlet clamoring for an independent prosecutor to look into Hillary Clinton’s emails. It is obvious, now that Hillary Clinton has secured the delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination, the Obama administration will do all it can to shield her from scrutiny and especially, prosecution. Full article from RedState.
**** Meanwhile if you would like more on the deposition of Patrick Kennedy:
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released the deposition transcript of Patrick Kennedy, State Department under secretary for management, regarding Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s use of the clintonemail.com system to conduct official government business.
The deposition transcript is available here.
Kennedy testified that the significance did not “register” with him that Clinton was using a non-state.gov email account even though he communicated with her by email; and though he is under secretary for management of three of the four offices charged with ensuring State Department policies practices and procedures are followed, he had no opinion as to whether policies were violated except to say that State Department records-management policy encourages employees to use state.gov addresses for official business.
Kennedy is among seven depositions of former Clinton top aides and State Department officials that Judicial Watch has questioned under oath.
This discovery arises in a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, former deputy chief of staff to Clinton. The lawsuit was reopened because of revelations about the clintonemail.com system. (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). Judge Sullivan ordered that all deposition transcripts be made publicly available.
