Judicial Watch: Former State Official Warned State Department Officials about Clinton Email Issues

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[OfficialJudicialWatch]

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that John Hackett, the former Director for Information Programs and Services (IPS), which handles records management at the State Department, testified under oath that he had raised concerns that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff had “culled out 30,000” of the secretary’s “personal” emails without following strict National Archives standards. The full deposition transcript is available here.

John Hackett, as part of a series of court-ordered depositions and questions under oath of senior Obama-era State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, also revealed that he believed there was interference with the formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) review process related to the classification of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails.

Hackett served first as deputy director then as director for Information Programs and Services, which handles the FOIA request program and the retirement of and declassification of documents at the State Department. He was at the department from April 2013 to March 2016.

In March 2015, Clinton told reporters that she and her staff had deleted more than 30,000 emails “because they were personal and private about matters that I believed were within the scope of my personal privacy.” ABC News reported: “However, after a year-long investigation, the FBI recovered more than 17,000 emails that had been deleted or otherwise not turned over to the State Department, and many of them were work-related, the FBI has said.”

(Heather Samuelson, the Clinton lawyer who deleted the Clinton emails, separately testified to Judicial Watch that she received immunity from the Justice Department.)

Hackett answered during the deposition that he recalled a conversation that he had when he was at the State Department about requesting rules or parameters from Secretary Clinton or her attorneys that they used to segregate her personal and official work emails.

[z3n]

Hide your emails from the government you work for. ✓ Delete your emails when you get caught. ✓ Frame your opponent(s) for foreign interference when wikileaks threatens to dump them. ✓ Still tweeting, touring, and taunting everyone with a glass of wine in your hands scotfree. Priceless

[Bonemaker]

So what?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Judicial Watch.

Doing the jobs that the United States Department of Justice just refuses to do.

[gaijin]

Tom Fitton, total bad-ass.

[M Kehoe]

+1

5.56mm

[immadashell]

I still think the Hilldebeest will look great in an orange jumpsuit.

[VA_Gentleman]

Judicial Watch does a lot of hard work. Sadly however, the only thing that will happen here is some finger-wagging at a few low level Democrat employees.

[mosesdapoet]

Have you seen this ? It was posted here in Free Republic comments.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3760618/posts/#40