So do you know what happened to those emails Ms. Clinton?
Posted on 08/01/2015 11:25:40 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A federal judge has ordered the State Department to ask Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to certify under penalty of perjury that she has turned over some of the work-related emails she kept on a private server during the four years she served as secretary of state.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued the order Friday in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the conservative group Judicial Watch filed in 2013 seeking records about the employment status of Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who worked as Clinton's deputy chief of staff but later transferred to a part-time job as a so-called "special government employee."
The State Department told Judicial Watch last year that all records about the arrangement had been disclosed, but after Clinton's use of a private email account for official business was revealed earlier this year, Judicial Watch moved to reopen the lawsuit. Abedin was also revealed to have used an account on the same server.
Judicial Watch hailed the decision, saying it would put teeth into requests for Clinton's emails and force her to account for all her government records. However, a close reading of Sullivan's order indicates that it only covers emails "responsive" to the group's request about Abedin's employment.
"This blockbuster ruling is the most significant legal development to date in the ongoing Clinton email scandal. Hillary Clinton will now have to answer, under penalty of perjury, to a federal court about the separate email server she and her aides used to avoid accountability to the American people,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “This court action shows that the rule of law and public’s right to know will no longer take a back seat to politics. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration that is covering for her are not above the law.”
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“some” of the emails??
“Under penalty of perjury.” Right.
Hillary: “Perjury? No problem, I do it all the time.”
So what? What is a little perjury to the Clintons?
“At least one”.
I would not think the word “some” would ever appear in a legal document.
I don’t remember.
I am not sure.
I don’t remember.
I aM not sure.
Or what? A threat without real consequences is empty lip-service.
Her mind’s in a blender, it’s jello! The concussed one could not tell the truth if her life depended on it.
Exactly. Just another smoke screen. “Some” renders the Order and Certification as vague and thus there is no way to determine either outcome. The Order can not be enforced and any Certification she signs will not offer any help. Parsing words is Clinton signature event. Now they wrote this for the Judge.
This could be a fatal problem for Hillary. If there are emails that fall into the order that She has already deleted and they turn up from another source the judge would through the book at her.
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