FBI Claims “Lack of Public Interest” in Hillary Clinton Emails Justifies Withholding Documents

thegatewaypundit ^ | Joshua Caplan

[davikkm]

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.

Conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch announced that on August 8, 2017, D.C. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the State Department “to search the state.gov e-mail accounts of Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jacob Sullivan” for emails relating to the Benghazi scandal.

This is a major victory. The truth will prevail.

[Slyfox]

So, the FBI is now doing polling to see if they should go after a crook?

Man, Hitlary sure has them by their cajones doesn't she?

[Professional]

Good grief! The swamp is bigger and deeper than anyone ever imagined.

[fhayek]

There is no controlling authority to indicate that there is evidence that a crime, or shall we say, "matter" has occurred. And if said "matter" did occur, it is likely that it is just about sex, which, as we all know is no one's business apart from perverted special procecutors. Given that this has no interest from the public, AND, this has been discussed to death, this is really just old news. We all need to take a deep breath and look at the REAL culprits, the vast-right-wing-conspiracy that exists for the sole purpose of taken the Clintons out. Even if there WAS something to this "matter", there clearly was no nefarious intent. It is well known that no indictment ever fed a hungry child, and just be aware of the number of corpses that started out crossing the Clintons.

Clintonesque enough for you?

[DrDude]

Bookmark!

[Brilliant]

Why doesn’t Trump just order these released?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

FBI = Fuc-in’ Bunch of Idiots.

We need citizen review boards in all 435 Congressional Districts to monitor and review the actions of every federal agent who carries a firearm.

That includes the FBI. IRS. DEA, BATF, EPA, etc. etc.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes...

[Bookshelf]

God, how I despise the FBI. They are the most over-hyped group of putzes the world has ever known.

[central_va]

Maybe the President can’t control the America Gestapo.

[The Toll]

And they wonder what happened to the Murrah Building.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The absurd allegations that no-one is interested and so they don’t have to comply in supplying the information is right out of the Communist playbook. They bigger the stakes, the bigger the lie and this is a whopper. Has someone’s life been threatened? The gall of this responsive is seditious.