Posted on 03/11/2015 7:56:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
The legal action comes after repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act have gone unfulfilled. They include one request AP made five years ago and others pending since the summer of 2013.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Clinton broke her silence about her use of a private email account while secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices.
"After careful deliberation and exhausting our other options, The Associated Press is taking the necessary legal steps to gain access to these important documents, which will shed light on actions by the State Department and former Secretary Clinton, a presumptive 2016 presidential candidate, during some of the most significant issues of our time," said Karen Kaiser, AP's general counsel.
"The press is a proxy for the people, and AP will continue its pursuit of vital information that's in the public interest through this action and future open records requests," she said.
State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach declined to comment. He had previously cited the department's heavy annual load of FOIA requests — 19,000 last year — in saying that the department "does its best to meet its FOIA responsibilities." He said the department takes requests "first in, first out," but noted that timing depends on "the complexity of the request."
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Perhaps, but I think they know she can't win. It may be, as I have speculated before, that the Dems actually want to lose in 2016, so that when the SHTF it can be blamed on the GOP in general and "ultra-right-wing conservatives" in particular, and someone like Warren or Julian Castro can fly into DC in their Superperson cape and complete the Fundamental Transformation that Obama has put in place. The only bee in the buttermilk is that it is possible for a true conservative to actually handle the SHtingTF and revive Morning in America, a la Reagan in 1980-84.
This will just be a ‘Dog and Pony Show’ for the masses.
Next up: Karl Rove to tell Republicans to stay off this subject, “let it implode”
Maybe we could just ask Russsia, China, or Israel to give us their copies of her email traffic. Angela Merkl can’t give us hers since she complained so much about being spied on. Wouldn’t want to look like a hypocrite now would she?
Congressional Subpoenas are still in place that have been violated.
Will Boner cry and ask Hillary for forgiveness?
We can only pray that the GOP can elect a true conservative in the manner of RR................
Fauxcahontas................
We have been told repeatedly over the years that ‘Nothing on the Internet ever truly disappears’............
bttt!
Candybar style Phone #2:
What's that about "one device" again Hillary?
“What’s the betting that there is conversations about Obama in a bad light plus conversations with the fairy boy in chief.”
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Probably more than a few conversations between the Hildabeast and her girlfriend Human too.
"The press [is] the only tocsin of a nation. [When it] is completely silenced... all means of a general effort [are] taken away." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, Nov 29, 1802. (*) ME 10:341
"Since truth and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press confined to truth needs no other legal restraint. The public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions on a full hearing of all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness. If there be still improprieties which this rule would not restrain, its supplement must be sought in the censorship of public opinion." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805. ME 3:381
"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384
"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.
And, finally, but by no means the entirety of Jefferson's thoughts on the need for a press free of bias toward any one political figure or group:
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."(Underlining added for emphasis) --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
Increased circulation, little else.
We The People...I wish the Great One could sue on our behalf!
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