Posted on 07/07/2015 10:03:26 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
An environmental group whose request for records related to the Keystone Pipeline was reportedly hampered while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state is considering taking the case to court for the second time.
Ben Schreiber, climate and energy program director at Friends of the Earth, said his group has weighed the option of relitigation in the weeks since learning that Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, had interfered in the agency's handling of Freedom of Information Act requests for Keystone documents.
While Schreiber said Friends of the Earth received a number of emails involving Clinton's top aides when the original case settled during Clinton's tenure, he noted the State Department did not then have any of the secretary's emails to produce.
"For us, this is very much a good governance thing," Schreiber said. "It's pretty clear that at the highest levels of the State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the agency did everything in their power to undermine the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act, and that for us is troubling."
The request sought any communications between State Department staff and Paul Elliott, a lobbyist for TransCanada and former Clinton campaign aide. TransCanada is the company that would build the Keystone Pipeline if the project received the necessary government approval.
Schreiber pointed to a Wall Street Journal article published in May that suggested Mills began screening documents set for release under FOIA after Friends of the Earth obtained an email that illustrated the cozy relationship between Elliott and State staffers. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1011/Paul_Elliot_puppetmaster.html
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