Hillary Staff Required To be DEPOSED TO TESTIFY Under OATH regarding her Private Email Server

[berni_mccoy]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/interviews-in-civil-suit-over-hillary-clinton-email-server-to-begin-this-week-1463506592

While this is part of the civil FOIA case, it involves the same people who have been interrogated by the FBI regarding the criminal case. This is EXTREMELY bad for her campaign as well as the CRIMINAL case she is being investigated for by the FBI. Note that the case has not been officially declared criminal by the FBI, but when directly asked, Comey said no comment. If it wasn't criminal, he could have (and would have) said no.

WASHINGTON—Interviews in a civil lawsuit with current and former State Department officials concerning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server will begin this week.

Lewis Lukens, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, will be interviewed under oath in the first deposition taken as part of a lawsuit by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch over access to Mrs. Clinton’s records during her time in office.

The civil lawsuit, which targets the State Department, doesn’t name Mrs. Clinton as a defendant, but it has the potential to complicate her presidential bid. Mrs. Clinton is seeking to clinch the Democratic nomination against rival Bernie Sanders and turn her attention to a likely general-election contest against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

The depositions, which will explore why Mrs. Clinton set up a private email server for her government work, will become part of the public record. Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Democratic appointee, granted Judicial Watch the right to conduct discovery, allowing the group to seek information from State Department officials—a rare order in a case concerning the Freedom of Information Act.

The deposition of Mr. Lukens will be followed by an interview next week with Cheryl D. Mills, Mrs. Clinton’s top aide at the State Department. Five other depositions are scheduled between now and the end of June, according to a schedule filed with the court.

Those interviews under oath will include Mrs. Clinton’s close aide Huma Abedin and Bryan Pagliano, the technology staffer who set up Mrs. Clinton’s private server.

I'm amazed that a DEMOCRATICALLY appointed Judge granted this and that Bryan Pagliano will be forced to TESTIFY.

Hillary needs to SUSPEND HER CAMPAIGN NOW!

[Gomez163]

1. Give. It. Up.

[virtualobserver]

2. This is a sneak preview of what her entire Presidency would be like.

[bunchofpenguins]

7. Yeah, just ignore criminal behaviour, shady practices, and secrecy.

If a Republican did what she did, you'd call for investigations.

Why should a politician be allowed to act against the public interest just because they have a D after their name?

[Ash_F]

9. Tell that to the Clinton appointed judge

Whooooooooooooooooooooooops!

[Herman4747]

36. Sadly, Hillary's not going to. n/t

[grasswire]

3. she ticked off both judges.

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled on March 29 that “where there is evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith, as here, limited discovery is appropriate, even though it is exceedingly rare in FOIA cases.”

And so the process of discovery continues.

5/16/2016

Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a proposed order for discovery with a federal court that seeks the testimony of Hillary Clinton about her use of non-state.gov email account(s) for official State Department business. Judicial Watch’s discovery plan also seeks the testimony of Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former chief of staff; and Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff, as well as other current and former State Department officials. Judicial Watch proposes the testimony take place over 12 weeks.

Today’s filing comes in a July 2014 Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit seeking records and communications in the Secretary’s Office related to the since discredited talking points used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to describe the nature of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)).

Clinton’s proposed testimony would cover the search in response to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request and, according to the filing:

searches of the Office of the Secretary for emails relating to the September 12, 2012 Benghazi attack and its aftermath, including searches for the Accountability Review Board, congressional inquiries, other FOIA requests, and the preparation of Secretary Clinton’s testimony before Congress on January 23, 2013;

the State Department’s policies, practices, procedures and/or actions (or lack thereof) to secure, inventory, and/or account for all records, including emails, of Secretary Clinton, prior to termination of employment with the State Department; and

the use of non-state.gov email account(s) to conduct official State Department business by Secretary Clinton and other officials and staff in the Office of the Secretary;

Judicial Watch’s other proposed witnesses include:

Cheryl Mills
Jacob Sullivan
Lauren Jiloty, former special assistant to Clinton
Monica Hanley, former Clinton aide
Clarence Finney, State Department records management official
30(b)(6) witness(es) (designated State Department witness(es) who testify on behalf of the agency)

Judicial Watch also seeks documents about the State Department’s Benghazi document responses and the handling of non-State.gov emails of Clinton and other top State officials, in particular:

All documents that concern or relate to the processing of any and all searches of the Office of the Secretary for emails relating to the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack and its aftermath, including but not limited to:
searches for records for the Accountability Review Board;
searches in response to congressional inquiries (including requests from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform dated September 20, 2012, October 2, 2012, October 29, 2012, and November 1, 2012);
searches in preparation of Secretary Clinton’s testimony before Congress on January 23, 2013; and
searches in response to FOIA requests, including but not limited to the FOIA request submitted by Plaintiff in this case.

Such documents would include the tasking, tracking and reporting records for such searches. Forms DS-1748 and any “search slips,” “search tasker,” “search details,” shall also be considered responsive.

All communications that concern or relate to the processing of all searches referenced in Document Request No. 1 above, including directions or guidance about how and where to conduct the searches, whether and how to search Secretary Clinton’s email, and issues, problems, or questions concerning the searches and/or search results.

All records that concern or relate to the State Department’s policies, practices, procedures and/or actions (or lack thereof) to secure, inventory, and/or account for all records, including emails, of Secretary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Jacob Sullivan prior to their termination of employment with the State Department.

[berni_mccoy]

18. Yup

[HubertHeaver]

4. It does not amaze me that a judge appointed by a democrat would grant this.

Democrats have a history of holding their own accountable for their wrong-doings. If you need examples, look up Wilbur Mills of Arkansas and Wayne Hayes of Ohio.

[berni_mccoy]

5. I should have tagged that sentence appropriately with this:

[HubertHeaver]

11. You were alright without the tag.

I've been looking for a place to make that remark and it seemed appropriate.

For examples from the other side, Sen. Vitter, La and the Idaho Wide-Stance fellow. (I don't recall his name at the moment.)

[frylock]

20. Larry Craig

[HubertHeaver]

23. Looks more like Godzilla

[HubertHeaver]

24. I'm sorry, that is your sig line.

Thought you were posting his picture.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, bernie_mccoy.

[felix_numinous]

8. Amazing HRC is able to pull off these stunts

while being under FBI investigation and so much corruption has been exposed. It's very mob like.

[insta8er]

10. Waiting for the spin masters to come in and tell us what we should think.security review cough!cough

[BillZBubb]

27. No, Judicial Watch is a right wing group. That's enough excuse for them.

It doesn't matter to them that a judge is finding Hillary's actions strongly indicate violations of the law.

Once they hear the words "right wing" any statement against Hillary, even if true, is dismissed. It's a cult.

[insta8er]

32. Ahhh...so that's how that works in team weathervane camp! (LOL)

[Merryland]

12. It's in the air

The recent interviews with Comey and Michael Haydn were a harbinger, preparing the public for the seriousness of the offenses being investigated.

[AtomicKitten]

13. A reckoning is coming. K&R

[IdaBriggs]

14. The spin-masters should be clucking soon about "Judicial Watch"

and tutting about how horrible that anything associated with them should be considered valid when they are obviously members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (tm).

Rather than repeating myself ad naseum, I will point out in advance that FOIA applies to EVERYONE, that this is one of THIRTY-EIGHT civil cases, and if Hillary Clinton hadn't been hiding government records in her basement/had obeyed the government record keeping rules/regulations, she wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

This is entirely self inflicted and one of the MANY examples of her horrible bad judgment.

Oh, and NOBODY ELSE IN GOVERNMENT EVER TRIED THIS TYPE OF STUNT BEFORE EXCEPT THE RNC AND KARL ROVE, so don't waste time falsely pretending otherwise.

[2cannan]

22. Love it, Ida--Dealt with every one of the BS (lies) talking points with one post! nt

[BillZBubb]

29. True that, Ida!

[pdsimdars]

15. Drip, drip, drip. . . .I think they're trying to give her a hint to spend more time with her family

Let's see if she can take a hint.

[Bill USA]

16. from the WSJ: Repugnants 'for' Bernie

[font size="5"]GOP: Bring the one they call Bernie...[/font]

[Dem2]

17. WOW!!!11!!!one!!

[auntpurl]

19. "as well as the CRIMINAL case"..."note the case has not officially been declared criminal"

[frylock]

21. We know it's not a security review.

[amborin]

25. Hillary is helping ensure a Trump victory, please drop out, Hillary!

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. Oh Boy Oh Boy!!!!

[floriduck]

28. It's about time. When you do the crime, you do the time. . .LOL

[BillZBubb]

30. The big one is still out there. Will Her Majesty be compelled to talk?

[annavictorious]

31. Does CAPITALIZATION

and italicizing random words make a non story a real story?

If you're on the same side as JUDICIAL Watch, you're not standing with progressives.

[BillZBubb]

34. Oh there we go--the Brock response!

Hillary must be allowed to break the law with impunity because the right wing is her accuser in court! If you don't support that, you're not standing with Hillary, you support the right wing!

Nice bit of twisted, amoral illogic there.

If you are standing with Hillary, you are standing with a criminal and against progressives.

[trudyco]

33. It does feel like the mob, and on the other side there

is the journalist who probably got suicided for exposing a picture of Ted Cruz's dad with Lee Harvey Oswald.

I feel like i'm living in two worlds right now.

[Herman4747]

35. Hillary is far too selfish & narcissistic to suspend her campaign. n/t

[farleftlib]

37. Amen to that

It's hubris of a billion magnitudes that somebody with her baggage would even consider
running for the position of the most powerful person in the world.

[KoKo]

38. Recommend....

[John Poet]

39. Crime and punishment.

Hillary committed the crime, and we'll get the punishment.

[apnu]

41. Has she been indicted? Has she been to trial?

Are we presuming guilt over innocence?

We don't do that in America.

[apnu]

40. Aren't all FBI investigations criminal of one sort or another?

The FBI is a law enforcement arm, and law enforcement's job is to investigate for crimes and find evidence of crimes or show there no crime has been committed.

Isn't it obvious that the FBI's involvement involves a criminal investigation?

Or are we presuming guilt over innocence before trial?

[polly7]

42. Good.

The destruction of Libya planned, in part, and in secret on a private server with no ability for scrutiny using someone - Blumenthal - banned by Obama - and hiding it all from a President she had to push for it - should be very, very important. Millions of lives were ruined - a sovereign nation turned into hell.