Video of Testimony in Clinton Email Lawsuit Ordered Sealed

[think]

Source: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Recordings of upcoming testimony by an aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are to be kept under seal over concerns the video might be used against the Democratic presidential front-runner.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in advance of Friday's scheduled deposition by Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. She is among a half dozen current and former officials to be questioned about Clinton's use of a private email server when she was the nation's top diplomat.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/video-testimony-clinton-email-lawsuit-ordered-sealed-39413022

[riversedge]

1. good. We have had enough of mockery by Republicans against Democrats.

[humbled_opinion]

4. Why is this good?

Don't we have a right to know what the truth is before we blindly choose a candidate that may well be unable to be elected or worse lose so badly that Trump runs coat tails with packed house and senate? How Opaque of her....

[Press Virginia]

27. The transcripts can be released

[forest444]

70. Sure - but think of how this plays in Peoria.

The optics are anything but good, and will only help underscore the voters' already deep distrust of the former Secretary (whether justified or not).

[retrowire]

8. Thank goodness we'll be kept in the dark on one of our candidates.

You're right, this is awesome.

[riversedge]

53. Do you have trouble reading? The transcripts will be released.

[retrowire]

72. transcripts can be taken out of context

And redacted, edited beyond recognition.

[FreakinDJ]

51. The Senate Judiciary Committee WILL get that video

and hold Impeachment Hearings

The Judge's order is only effective against Right Wing Media

[christx30]

57. Politics is mockery.

Anyone that can't stand to be mocked shouldn't run for public office.
I have a great deal of contempt toward anyone that would run for office. It's a power grab, under the guise of vanity. "This country is going through a lot of crap, but *I* am the one that's going to make everything ok."
Everyone from the local dog catcher to the President of the United States, regardless of party, should be mocked relentlessly. Their time on the campaign trail and in office should be an absolutely miserable existence.
That's the only way we know that we are getting public servants, rather than rulers.

[wendylaroux]

2. I did not think anything about this email biz up until now, wth???

it is everywhere,

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Judge Sullivan was appointed by ... wait for it, wait for it ...

[humbled_opinion]

5. LOL....

Let the mockery begin....

[geek tragedy]

10. you would have preferred a Bush appointee so they would rule in favor of Judicial Watch? nt

[7962]

26. I would prefer an actual valid legal reason. "Embarrassment" isnt one.

[geek tragedy]

41. He doesn't want the case being used as a filming location

for political ads. Transcript is enough. Judicial Watch and its fellow travelers have no legitimate reason for demanding the video in addition to the transcript.

[7962]

44. Heck, transcript only could be MORE damaging!

Its like texting, you cant tell emphasis or inflection from a transcript. Which means they could toy around with a statement and it would be up to ills to 'clarify" what was said and how. A video takes away that chance
Or, there may be nothing at all to see, who knows

[geek tragedy]

45. Video would be in addition to, not instead of, a transcript nt

[Duval]

13. Oh, nothing to see here, right?

Drip drip drip

[RufusTFirefly]

14. The Three Amigos

He was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. In 1991, he was appointed by President George Bush to serve as an associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. In 1994, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.

[Jesus Malverde]

17. Wouldn't you need to recuse yourself from the case?

Seems like a conflict of interest.

[RufusTFirefly]

18. I'm sure Sullivan doesn't feel indebted to the Clintons at all...

... any more than Hillary feels indebted to Goldman Sachs for paying her hundreds of thousands of dollars for making a few speeches.

It's what they offered.

[Duval]

19. I'm sure, too.

Right. Sigh!

[tomm2thumbs]

6. the text will still be released, and now the text will be read with inflections that make it worse

they should have simply released it all in total

imagine all the ways the words will be mis-read to change context!


SHE saw me changing email.

She SAW me changing email.

She saw ME changing email.

She saw me CHANGING email.

She saw me changing EMAIL.

[NWCorona]

12. That's assuming the state department doesn't challenge it within the 3 day window.

[retrowire]

7. Here's my impression of a Hillary supporter to this news.

Yay! Thank goodness I'll still be able to vote for a nominee that may or may not be involved in some seedy shit!

I hate knowing the details!

Hooray for being uninformed!

[geek tragedy]

11. so you're taking Judicial Watch's side in this? nt

[Press Virginia]

29. why would you oppose what they're doing?

[geek tragedy]

34. Because I am not a Republican nt

[Press Virginia]

35. Demanding Transparency in government is a republican trait?

here I thought we had a right to know what our government officials are doing or not doing

[geek tragedy]

37. Transcript is full transparency.

The judge doesn't want the case politicized. Judicial Watch and its allies can go pound sand.

[Press Virginia]

38. I know this. The video should be sealed

[geek tragedy]

39. Lots of people in this thread disagree.

I will not speculate as to why they want Judicial Watch to be able to use that video footage in political ads.

[Press Virginia]

40. I'm not one of them.

[geek tragedy]

42. Cheers nt

[GummyBearz]

69. Except for all those redacted lines. Other than that yea

[retrowire]

71. transcripts can be taken out of context

And edited.

[geek tragedy]

73. so can video. Ask james O'Keefe. Too bad, so sad for Judicial Watch and its allies nt

[retrowire]

76. yes anything can be taken out of context

Transcripts can be redacted. Video makes it harder to do that.

You'd do well to treat others with opposing opinions with respect. I have no idea what judicial watch is but I'm assuming it's some right wing nonsense.

That said, be kinder. You never really know who you're talking to.

[geek tragedy]

77. Judicial Watch has one purpose--to file lawsuits against Democratic administrations

in order to harass them and damage them in elections.

[TipTok]

46. Ethics are not dictated by the letter after a political name...

Equal standards for everyone should be the goal.

[geek tragedy]

47. Neither does Hillary Hatred nt

[TipTok]

49. Maybe she could stop doing things that engender such feelings...

... From across the political spectrum.

[geek tragedy]

50. lol. 18 more days nt

[TipTok]

52. 18 days until you can get back to your safe space...

... Where no one can challenge you or point out factual flaws with the Democratic nominee?

Doesn't that sound intellectually stimulating.

Maybe that's not why you come here. To each his own...

[geek tragedy]

63. 18 days until people at least have to pretend to be committed

to keeping Donald Trump out of the white house.

[TipTok]

64. Same difference...

[geek tragedy]

65. yes, 18 days until those explicitly or implicitly rooting for a Trump victory

are forbidden from polluting this place.

[TipTok]

67. Enjoy your safe space...

[geek tragedy]

68. Thank you. This is not a place for our partisan enemies

Trump supporters in particular are toxic and destructive of our goals

[Darb]

54. She hasn't even testified yet.

How do you know it will be bad for the campaign? Or that this judge is protecting Hillary?

You don't. But go ahead, tell us......wait....let me...... ........cool, fire away.

[ffr]

9. Ordered sealed. What a joke

Yeah, we tried to keep CIA agents working against weapons of mass destruction secret too. People who are right there, putting their lives on the line, spending years to infiltrate the enemy. And they're names are made public in a political revenge plot. Thanks a lot GWB!

American Hero
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KYl4HptEL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

American traitors


And thanks a lot to the 500 or so people who sat out the 2000 election and gave us a contested Florida recount and the entire aftermath.

[zalinda]

21. For the umpteenth time. Over 300,000 DEMOCRATS voted for Bush in Florida. eom

[ffr]

60. And ~44% of eligible voters showed up.

More than one out of every two people had something better to do that day. When elections are rigged, people have to show up in overwhelming numbers so the outcome is without dispute. Vote early. Vote absentee. Take a few minutes in line to vote, if not for yourself, for others.

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2000&fips=12

[zalinda]

75. Gore did not excite the people enough to get them out to vote.

I voted for the guy. But damn, he could have been more. If he was then like he is now, he probably would have done better. Whoever ran his campaign should be the one blamed.

Z

[ffr]

78. Agreed.

I know he distanced himself from Clinton, probably in agreement with his campaign manager.

Oh how the world could have been a much better place than it was today, even with Lieberman as his VP. Anything would have been better than W & Cheney.

[zalinda]

79. Donna Brazile was his campaign manager, enough said. eom

[Jopin Klobe]

15. Of course ...

... of course ...

[ConsiderThis_2016]

16. Justice is blind... NOT

[SusanLarson]

20. Sounds like a job for Anonymous

Perhaps Anonymous can get and leak it.

[Mohammed_Lee]

22. Transparency.....

[JudyM]

23. Ooh, ouch.

[7962]

28. Surprised to see that one on DU, but it IS accurate nt

[JudyM]

24. I want to know: under what "principle" of law is protecting a presidential candidate against video

clip usage of a person under oath covered?!

[Press Virginia]

30. They don't want it used in a campaign ad

[JudyM]

31. Right, but a judge ruled to keep it under wraps -- it should be for a legal reason.

[Press Virginia]

32. The transcripts can be released

[JudyM]

33. Yes. Still want to know the basis under which the vid is being withheld.

[Darb]

55. Don't be daft.

So a million infotainment asshats don't swarm down trying to film it and make it a circus.

She hasn't testified yet, so any judgement that you are making regarding motive for the actions of the judge are premature. But please proceed govner.

[JudyM]

58. You've revealed yourself as the daft one. There isn't an issue about a swarm of cameras... there is

going to be one in court vid just as there will be one transcript.

Similarly, I am not making a judgment, hello!? I am wondering about the legal basis. But please proceed with your own transparently supercilious "wisdom"...

[Darb]

59. Uhhhh, duh. She hasn't testified.

Any of your "concern" is premature. Any and all of it. So please, keep whining if it blows your skirt up. Here's a novel idea, try to think of a reason that might help the Bernie campaign, then you might figure out a justification for the order.

[JudyM]

61. Wow, you are just off. Sayonara.

[Darb]

62. Uh, no, wrong again.

You are a partisan. Back away from the pipe.

[7962]

25. Um, that doesnt sound like an actual LEGAL reason to seal it

"Oh, it might embarrass someone" isnt a valid excuse
Oh wait, the "someone"is Hillary. She gets special rules. Nevermind

[geek tragedy]

36. The purposes of those depositions is not to provide fodder for political ads.

The transcript is enough. Judicial Watch and its allies will just need to have a sad.

[Major Hogwash]

43. "She is among a half dozen current and former officials to be questioned . . . "

Naw, there's nothing to this investigation.
Just look the other way and pretend no one knew anything about anything.

Who the hell was the Secretary of State for Obama anyway, Sgt. Schultz??

"I know nuffin, nuffin!!"

[bobthedrummer]

48. Cheryl Mills, Army brat, has quite a few career paths linked to the Clintons SuperHighway

Cheryl Mills (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Mills

[Darb]

56. Hold on................

........OK, please proceed.

[Rozlee]

66. The video can't be released because it might 'embarrass' Clinton?

Was she sitting on the toilet or talking with a cucumber facial on?

[senz]

74. Facts cannot be allowed near Hillary. Don't look at her too closely, folks.

Let's keep her under wraps until she wins whatever it is she wants to win.

[6000eliot]

80. What? No "drip drip drip" troll?

[ileus]

81. Excellent we win and they can go to hell wondering what is on the recording.