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EDITOR: GAWKER SUING FEDS OVER ‘NIXONIAN’ PLOT TO FRUSTRATE FOIA PROCESS
Breitbart ^ | March 13 2015 | Pam Key

Posted on 03/15/2015 2:19:52 PM PDT by Whenifhow

Friday on CSPAN, Gawker executive editor for investigative journalism John Cook said they are filing the papers for a lawsuit later today or Monday, against the State Department for their “Nixonian” “conspiracy at the highest levels of the State Department to frustrate” FOIA requests.

Cook explained that it was hard to accept.

“It could be that there is a conspiracy at the highest levels of the State Department to frustrate this process,” he said. “[I]t is just shocking to me to find out that there actually was, that dark impulse. Are they really trying, was there really an effort to keep these things from reaching the public domain? And clearly, in the case of Hillary Clinton and her senior aides, there was.”

“So, we are filing, probably today, a lawsuit prepared by two attorneys we are working with in Washington DC. So, we have one active request with the State Department, which is for email correspondence between one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides and reporters at about 34 news organizations,” he explained.

Cook added, “We know there was a plot at the highest levels of the State Department to shield email communications from senior staffers. Remember, this is not just Hillary Clinton. One of her top aides also had a Clinton.com address.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: email; foia; gawker; hillaryclinton; hillaryemailgate; statedept; statedeptscandals; statedeptsued

1 posted on 03/15/2015 2:19:52 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Gawker, run by Nick Denton, is Social Justice Warrior hell. Hope they lose a lot of money fighting this.


2 posted on 03/15/2015 2:22:13 PM PDT by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: Hacksaw

Enemy of my enemy, brah.


3 posted on 03/15/2015 2:24:15 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Whenifhow

Hey, Gawker. You’re a bit behind the times. Nixon isn’t running the State Department any longer. John Kerry is.


4 posted on 03/15/2015 2:24:50 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Whenifhow

Isn’t Gawker mostly a gay techie mag..?

Wow, Obama and the Clintons pissing off some really unusual people...


5 posted on 03/15/2015 2:27:44 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Cicero

Barak Obama is.


6 posted on 03/15/2015 2:32:18 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Whenifhow
“Nixonian” plot --- that's all Nixon had. A scheme. In those days the federal government was (mostly) in the hands of Americans. The bureaucrats told Nixon to forget about it. Get lost. The articles of impeachment charged that Nixon "endeavored" to do this and that.

Nowadays the Establishment is composed of willing and anti-American aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological litter -- Obama is one. I thought Gawker was one also.

7 posted on 03/15/2015 2:33:08 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Whenifhow

Everyone needs to stop using Nixon as the standard for abuse of presidential power. Obama eclipsed him long ago.


8 posted on 03/15/2015 2:33:27 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: Whenifhow

Nixonian? Obamaesque maybe.


9 posted on 03/15/2015 2:41:51 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: GMMC0987
Everyone needs to stop using Nixon as the standard for abuse of presidential power. Obama eclipsed him long ago.

But "Nixonian" Just rolls off the tongue so well. Also, Dems understand the term. In the future, we'll refer to abuses of power like this as "Obamanesque". That is, if we still have the freedom to think and/or speak freely in the future.

10 posted on 03/15/2015 2:44:17 PM PDT by tpmintx (Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
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To: Whenifhow

Nixonian? Tricky Dick was Mary Poppins compared with this gang of domestic terrorists.


11 posted on 03/15/2015 3:04:02 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: Hacksaw

Yep Gawker Media is as liberal as it comes. I challenge any normal american to read Jezebel and not come out throwing up. So to me this is hilarious, Gawker and Obama can both burn.


12 posted on 03/15/2015 3:12:58 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: Whenifhow

Hah.

The naifs at Gawker find out just how bad the people in the government really are.

Welcome to Reality, kiddies. Now you know what we’ve been talking about.


13 posted on 03/15/2015 3:19:57 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Whenifhow

Not “Nixonian,” but “Clintonian!”

Clinton was a master of spineless, lawyerly doublespeak & gobbledegook. I was always certain that Hillary was behind all of the most down & dirty exploits of every single Clintonian fraud and lie.

Bill was the soft face of the evil that is Hillary.

Mark


14 posted on 03/15/2015 5:11:13 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: GMMC0987
Everyone needs to stop using Nixon as the standard for abuse of presidential power. Obama eclipsed him long ago.

Nixon was a patriot who loved America.

15 posted on 03/16/2015 4:09:22 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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