FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary emails justifies withholding documents

The Washington Times ^ | 8-29-17 | Steven Dinan

[afraidfortherepublic]

Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.

Ty Clevenger, the lawyer, has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal lawyers disbarred for their handling of her official emails during her time as secretary of state. He’s met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the FBI’s files has been shot down.

“You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.

“It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA,” Mr. Hardy wrote.

Mrs. Clinton, is the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former chief diplomat, former U.S. senator, and former first lady of both the U.S. and Arkansas. Her use of a secret email account to conduct government business while leading the State Department was front-page news for much of 2015 and 2016, and was so striking that the then-FBI director broke with procedure and made both a public statement and appearances before Congress to talk about the bureau’s probe.

In the end, the FBI didn’t recommend charges against Mrs. Clinton, concluding that while she risked national security, she was too technologically inept to know the dangers she was running, so no case could be made against her.

The FBI says it will only release records from its files if a subject consents, is dead, or is of such public interest that it overrides privacy concerns.

[surrey]

I wish. You wouldn’t have a clue who the Attorney General is if we hadn’t seen him appointed. Talk about nowhere to be found.

[Chode]

then put it to a vote on Drudge... but he doesn't have the yarbles

[afraidfortherepublic]

Hey! It ought to be a “Poll of the Day”

[Chode]

100%!!!

[Chode]

i just sent it to Drudge... now lets see if HE has the yarbles

[itsahoot]

The only way this stands is if Trump allows it.

Bingo. He has staff that are openly defying him and yet they remain.

Same with Congress the reason we don't get tax reform is they don't want to reform their income source.

[itsahoot]

Jeff sessions is a smiling ineffectual bumbling fool who should not be doing that job.

Well Jeff isn't doing that job so what is the complaint? :)

[Roccus]

Just wanted to make sure you saw this latest load from the FiBees

[Mr. Mojo]

So public interest is now the litmus test for law enforcement? We’re circling the drain, as corrupt as any nation on earth.

[rodguy911]

You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.

WTH is this assclown talking about?

[rodguy911]

Impossible the FBI is at the bottom eclipsed only by CIA and their obvious drug dealing and nation destruction on a worldwide basis.

[Starboard]

I couldn’t agree more. You cannot win without a good team whether its in sports, business or politics.

The Republicans in congress are content to live in the Swamp because they’re in DC for themselves, not us. The Swamp becomes their home and its denizens quickly become their family.

Trump’s success will depend to a very large extent on his ability to bulldoze the Swamp and he needs a good construction crew to do it. As Step #1 he has at least succeeded in exposing the Swamp for what it is. More and more Americans now realize how corrupt and deceitful their government really is.