Posted on 05/04/2016 10:10:10 PM PDT by Nachum
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be required to give a deposition on her use of a private email server for official business while in office, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted discovery in the case on Wednesday to the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, according to The Hill. Judicial Watch's original lawsuit sought information about the emails of Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin, but has since moved on to include Clinton's use of the private server, which critics say may have compromised national security.
"Based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary," the judge said Wednesday, according to Judicial Watch. "If Plaintiff believes Mrs. Clinton's testimony is required, it will request permission from the Court at the appropriate time." mance.
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Utterly functionless exercise. What will come out of a depo? That she didn’t know that whatever she writes or transmits as SOS is by default classified? (or better, meaning MORE secret?) That she wasn’t aware? That she didn’t mean to? THat nobody with the ability to classify a document ever notified her that what she may be writing or transmitting MIGHT be classified or could be considered classified? That she’s already furnished those emails (even though roughly 1300 she DID NOT disclose have been discovered? That she violated the irreducible black letter agreement she signed with the 0bama admin when she took office?
This is an exercise designed to generate the same kind of crap Issa did, this dual-possibility tree of meaning chained together 6 times so that there are 2E6 possibilities? Stupid. The facts required to indict here are already in incontrovertible evidence.
“Utterly functionless exercise. “
Maybe, but the optics during a presidential election are seriously not good for her. Just another of the myriad of “nails” being driven into her coffin.
“Maybe, but the optics during a presidential election are seriously not good for her. Just another of the myriad of “nails” being driven into her coffin.”
We would all hope that would be the case, but the optics on the Clintons have been sharply focused for the last 25 years and the nails driven into her coffin are countless and somehow a large percentage American people cannot see the crimes that have been committed.
My opinion is that yet another zero-result HRC appearance before a judge whose professional life and childrens’ lives are probably obliquely mentioned in certain preliminary discussions only hardens the HRC-faithful. It will be seen as more evil Rep desperation with no result. If the DOJ will not indict, this exercise achieves nothing, IMO. Nothing short of an indictment achieves anything.
IMHO it is even better than that. Bill lied under oath and was disbarred for it. But, and the big but here, he had already been elected. If she is caught in a lie during the election that becomes a very big negative.
I think the original case was a request under the Freedom of Information Act. The judge agrees with the plaintiff that the response to the original request was deficient and that the plaintiff may investigate who was responsible for the deficiency.
It may well be that Hillary was personally responsible for responding to the request and she may have to explain how she managed not to respond appropriately. It would certainly be difficult for her to claim that she didn't know about her own secret email server.
Evidently, this has nothing to do with the criminal case being pursued by the FBI.
Instead, it is related to the FOIA case brought by Judicial Watch. Most of what we in the public know about Hillary's e-mails and the server arrangement has come from the FOIA case.
She’s an attorney who will be represented by another attorney. Her attorney will advise her not to answer any questions during her deposition and she won’t. This will just be an exercise in futility.
“This will just be an exercise in futility.”
So what would you suggest they do, nothing? Sure there’s always the liklihood that she won’t say anything, I get that. But just the fact that she’d deposed presents a bad picture that she will have to go before the cameras afterward and lie about. Trump will use the fact of the deposition to bash her.
Since it’s a civil suit she can’t take the fifth. If she does she can be held in contempt of court. That applies to her aides too. If they lie, it adds fuel to the fire since the FBI would be able to use that against them.
Hillary and her aids are in a very sticky situation.
You’re correct in saying that it has nothing to do with the FBI. However, since the FBI is conducting a parallel criminal investigation, the answers will be of interest to the FBI too who will soon schedule their own interviews.
Expect a perjury charge before the convention. The rest can wait.
” If she is caught in a lie during the election that becomes a very big negative.”
Exactly how many lies does she need to tell or laws to break before it is a “negative” for her?
I almost busted out laughing.
Yeah so Gowdy can ask her some more softball questions and “clear” her of any wrong doing. The problem for the felon is that Trump WILL indict her in the court of public opinion and convict her easily.
Of course not. Use the evidence at hand to prosecute her butt. It's prima facia evidence and the intent is evident by the content of the messages and her actions. Serial killers have been put away with less evidence. I'm just saying, based on my experience as an investigator that has worked on white collar crimes cases for over 20 years where narcissistic and manipulative personalities are involved and her past history, this type of beotch is not going to answer the questions to implicate herself and the deposing attorney is going to have a helluva time getting her to say anything to implicate herself. Plus she has Satan assisting her...: )
Both Clintons should be goose marched straight to jail.
Along with a whole passel of obammy people including the magic negro.
Placemark fro reading tomorrow.
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