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BREAKING -Leopold to DoJ: Call it Criminal Or Release the Correspondence Between The FBI and Clinton
http://www.inquisitr.com/3107839/hillary-clinton-email-probe-update-top-journalists-attorneys-rip-into-fbi-for-not-releasing-correspondence-with-clinton-over-emails/This is it folks, either she's the subject of a criminal investigation or she isn't. The DoJ is going to be forced to respond or release the FBI's correspondence with Clinton on the private server matter.
Even as Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton celebrated her narrow victory over Vermont senator Bernie Sanders in Kentucky, a top journalist’s lawyers were seeking to establish the scope of the FBI investigation that is being conducted over her alleged misuse of a private server to share sensitive information.
According to LawNewz, Vice News investigative journalist Jason Leopold’s attorneys filed a document in court Tuesday ripping into the FBI’s reasoning for withholding its correspondence with Hillary Clinton over the email server. Leopold has been seeking the emails that the agency exchanged with Hillary Clinton’s office in regard to the investigation under the Freedom of Information Act, but his efforts to gain access to the emails have been blocked by the U.S. Justice Department.
As The Inquisitr reported earlier this month, the Justice Department declined to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to the investigation because it involved “a law enforcement matter,” which, at the time, was the first indication that the FBI was conducting a criminal investigation over Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The DOJ argued that the requested emails are subject to FOIA exemption because their release could interfere with the investigation.
According to LawNewz, Vice News investigative journalist Jason Leopold’s attorneys filed a document in court Tuesday ripping into the FBI’s reasoning for withholding its correspondence with Hillary Clinton over the email server. Leopold has been seeking the emails that the agency exchanged with Hillary Clinton’s office in regard to the investigation under the Freedom of Information Act, but his efforts to gain access to the emails have been blocked by the U.S. Justice Department.
As The Inquisitr reported earlier this month, the Justice Department declined to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to the investigation because it involved “a law enforcement matter,” which, at the time, was the first indication that the FBI was conducting a criminal investigation over Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The DOJ argued that the requested emails are subject to FOIA exemption because their release could interfere with the investigation.
That is a CRIMINAL investigation because that is the only exemption to FOIA.
So basically the DoJ is being forced to call it what it is: Criminal. Or release what the FBI has said to Clinton.
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Why anybody would waste any time listening to a disgraced liar and clown like Jason Leopold is anybody's guess.
Good Lord.
