Posted on 09/10/2015 10:32:36 AM PDT by PROCON
The Obama administration told a federal court Wednesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was within her legal rights to use of her own email account, to take the messages with her when she left office and to be the one deciding which of those messages are government records that should be returned.
In the most complete legal defense of Mrs. Clinton, Justice Department lawyers insisted they not only have no obligation, but no power, to go back and demand the former top diplomat turn over any documents she hasn’t already given — and neither, they said, can the court order that.
The defense came as part of a legal filing telling a judge why the administration shouldn’t be required to order Mrs. Clinton and her top aides to preserve all of their emails.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Judicial Watch, which had at least 16 active open-records lawsuits against the State Department seeking emails from Mrs. Clinton or her top aides, said the administration is ignoring its own guidelines in trying to clear Mrs. Clinton.
“Indeed, the State Department’s own rules specify that personal records of a departing presidential appointee may not be removed from the government until the State Department ‘records officer in cooperation with the S/ES or appropriate administrative office’ approves of the removal, a process which ‘generally requires a hands-on examination of the materials,’ ” Judicial Watch said in a reply brief.
“No controlling legal authority”
Policy does not override US Code.
sigh
I’m not hopeful Doug; it seems over the last 6 1/2 years, the whole judicial system became corrupt.
F*** Y** LORETTA GRYNCH!
Government money was spent installing, configuring, managing, etc.
That is correct, there you go. Hil has the Ok of valjar to be pres.
As blatantly illegal as the email server thing was, it was used a smoke screen to distract attention from her larger crimes - like selling her influence and decision making capabilities as SoS to foreign governments in exchange for tens of million in “donations” to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
Of course. Exactly as I predicted.
Does this hurt Biden?
Ever heard the words Independent Council used since Obama took office. Use to hear them all the time. Hmmm.
Oh, the minor details. /s
Gee what a surprise!
Thanks Rita. I guess I’m so tired of watching the Clinton’s skate on issue after issue, I’m fairly resigned to watching her forgiven for this too.
Just this morning I was rating her chances of becoming president to about 3%. This raises that to 33%.
The judge will smack this down so fast...
DOSJ = Department of SELECTIVE Justice!
But the court can order a Kentucky clerk to jail...........................
These are not the illegal activities you are looking for.
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