Former SOS Deputy Assistant Set to Testify in Clinton E-Mail Civil Lawsuit

[KoKo]

by Chris White | LawNews, 11:24 am, May 18th, 2016

Depositions are set to begin this week and will continue well into the summer as part of a civil lawsuit concerning Hillary Clinton’s use of private e-mail server while serving as Secretary of State. Lewis Lukens, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, will be the first former Clinton aide to testify under oath when he appears for his deposition on Wednesday.

The deposition schedule was released late Tuesday by the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch. Earlier this year, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan entered an order that allows Judicial Watch to conduct discovery into whether the State Department and then Secretary of State Clinton deliberately thwarted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosure laws. The specific focus of the lawsuit is to obtain records about the employment status of Huma Abedin, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Clinton.

In addition to Lukens, at least five other top Clinton aides are expected to be questioned under oath by Judicial Watch attorneys in depositions over the next several weeks.

Clinton’s former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills and Stephen D. Mull, executive secretary of the State Department from June 2009 to October 2012 are scheduled to be deposed next two weeks.

The man who is widely believed to have set up Clinton’s private e-mail, Bryan Pagliano, is scheduled to give testimony during the first week of June. Pagliano is the only Clinton aide publicly known to have received immunity from the Department of Justice in exchange for his cooperation in the FBI/DOJ investigation into the potential mishandling of classified materials. Last week, State Department officials announced they could not locate a single one of Pagliano’s e-mails from his time at the State Department. Several FOIA attorneys told LawNewz.com that revelation was highly suspicious.

Huma Abedin and State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy are scheduled to testify during the last week of June, according to the deposition schedule filed in the lawsuit.

“This court-order testimony could finally reveal new truths about how Hillary Clinton and the Obama State Department subverted the Freedom of the Information Act,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement released on Tuesday.

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[stonecutter357]

1. emails and stuff.

[scscholar]

2. What a waste of time

This is sad.

[KoKo]

13. Why do you find it sad...You feel there was no wrong doing there?

Two Federal Judges (one appointed by Clinton) think something was going on with the failure of Hillary to archive her e-mails to comply with FOIA (Freedom of Information Review) which is an attempt to keep our Government Officials to leave a record of their decisions and discussions for the Historical Records that the People "Need to Know" and for future Historians to Evaluate their Tenure in Office.

Without the knowledge of the past how can we hope to hold our elected officials accountable to the very people (US) who pay their salaries and whose decisions affect All of Us and our Government Policies going forward?

[MariaThinks]

3. bernie supporters are so hoping that the email scandal turns out to be criminal

the facts aren't even in. it could be bogus like the benghasi attacks against her.

[chemp]

6. No

I do not want to see our candidate charged.
But I am apprehensive.
I supported Edwards.
And he burned us badly.
I kinda fear the stove these days, know whut I mean.

[MariaThinks]

8. i do agree with you on that. i hope the email scandal is nothing

but anything can happen and that scares me. One of the reasons that it's good to have a credible backup candidate.

the republicans don't have that.

[highprincipleswork]

4. Can't believe that this is what people think is OK for our presumptive nominee.

[KoKo]

12. Hey...I can't, either.

But, then I remember the Nixon Hearings. Have we learned nothing?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. So this Judicial Watch found a Judge to

listen to Klayman and his Right Wing Cranks. This is going to be a real Circus.

[pinebox]

7. A Clinton appointed judge XD

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Going to be interesting to say the least.

Feel for the Judge on this one,Judicial Watch(Koch Brothers founding)will turn this into a Circus one way or another. Watch the Media blow this up so they can save Con Man Don's Campaign.

[2cannan]

9. Part of what they're trying to find out about are Huma's roles at the State Dept, Clinton Foundation

and Teneo.

Hillary Clinton signed off on job change for Huma Abedin
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/24/hillary-clinton-personally-signed-off-on-job-change-for-huma-abedin/?_r=0

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The documents, released by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, show that Mrs. Clinton personally signed forms establishing a new title and position for the aide, Huma Abedin, in March 2012. The forms were part of a broader process in which Ms. Abedin, then Mrs. Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, was transitioning to a role as a “special government employee,” which allowed her to collect salaries from the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and the private firm, Teneo, which was co-founded by a former aide to President Clinton.

A few months later, Ms. Abedin began working at Teneo. Politico first reported on the newly released document.

Ms. Abedin’s multiple roles have come under scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee and its chairman, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa. Mr. Grassley is reviewing potential conflicts of interests between Mrs. Clinton and Teneo clients, who included a wide roster of companies and prominent business executives, some of them also donors to the Clinton Foundation.

[COLGATE4]

11. Well, I guess if Mr. Grassley is reviewing it everything will be

above board

[Tarc]

14. Sanders fans carrying water for the right-wing Judicial Watch

and still clapping really, really hard for the Indictment Fairy to wake up.

[KoKo]

16. Two Federal Judges gave authority to do Discovery (One appointed by Clinton)

So, what's the problem here?

[trudyco]

15. Remember that Judicial Watch wasn't the only FOIA thwarted

C.R.E.W. also had FOIA thwarted by not getting Clinton's emails, but Brock took over that non-partisan anti-corruption group and silenced them. Thus, Hillary fans can repeat over and over and over that this is just a right wing witch hunt by Judicial Watch.

Everybody forgets that CREW also had reason to pursue this but was purposely silenced by Hillary's right hand man.

This primary season has been really eye opening. Not in a good way.

[KoKo]

17. ....!