Posted on 08/20/2015 2:27:49 PM PDT by Theoria
A federal judge indicated Thursday that he believes Hillary Clinton violated government policy by storing official emails on a private server when she worked as secretary of state.
During a hearing on a Freedom of Information Act case, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said the actions had complicated the State Department’s ability to respond to requests for the agency’s records on various topics.
“We wouldn’t be here today if this employee had followed government policy,” Sullivan said, apparently referring to Clinton.
After Justice Department lawyer Peter Wechsler argued that FOIA normally doesn’t allow for searches of government officials’ private accounts, the judge said he viewed it as an unusual situation because “there was a violation of government policy.”
“We’re not talking about a search of anyone’s random email,” Sullivan added.
Clinton, who’s now the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has maintained that her use of a private email account during her four years as secretary was legal and that the State Department’s policy at the time did not prohibit use of a personal account for official business.
“What I did was legally permitted,” Clinton said during a campaign stop in Las Vegas Tuesday.
During a hearing that lasted over an hour in federal court in Washington, Sullivan pressed for answers about whether more copies of official government records from Clinton’s tenure may exist, either in a server or thumb drives turned over to the FBI or in back-up servers a private technology company maintained for Clinton.
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"This employee" indeed!
Judge Sullivan has ample cause to drag Hillary in front of him and question her directly, and not have to listen to some capo State Department lawyer try to winnow his way out of complying with the judge’s orders.
We wouldn’t be here today if this employee had followed government policy
“This employee” indeed!
My thoughts too
Policy? Or The LAW?
I worked with classified secret and top secret information. On weekends when no person was in the government building the disc drives containing secret information were spun down and the platters and removable drives and storage devices were placed in very large combination safes and logged in an and out. You were in trouble for even having the log book signed and witnessed incorrectly. To keep track of all the database 300MB drive platters we would name them by using the first name of the playboy centerfold that month as an archive for when it was first created. It would always be a back up to the month and year as a reference.
In Hillary's case the dang server off site should have been only handled by people with security clearance to even handle the servers and back up drives. And oh where are those back drives and tapes of her server from the contracted company? Who approved and signed off on this company or did Hillary pay for this clandestinely out of her own pocket? This idiot belongs in jail along with every other person the supported or had knowledge of the activity in the State Department. America has gone insane and nuts and corrupt!
Yeah, that phrase “this employee” sort of oozes the judge’s contempt, doesn’t it?
Policy? - come back when you’re willing to talk about “law”, Judge....
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sullivan
Originally a Reagan appointee, later Bush appointee to a higher level:
And:
African American.
No, wait...
AMERICAN!
Well, if it was you or me, it would be a violation of the law with 5 years in prison and a %10,000 fine. Since it's Hillary Clinton, it is a policy violation, and we all know what policies are. They are guidelines! They are merely suggestions on how to do things, not binding upon our superiors.
Well said.
Good, but does anyone have the courage to indict her? Or are they afraid of the wrath of a witch scorned?
When the jaws of the law start tightening around Her Highess, she will put the burden on an underling and the media will finish the job of destroying his/her life.
So the department tasked with the investigation is defending the perpetraitor?! (Not a misspelling.) This is why a special prosecutor must be appointed!
And can someone tell me how she communicated re: the Benghazi events?
Was she using couriers on donkeys?
Where was she "exactly" when Benghazi was going down?
Is there anybody who thinks that Hillary wouldn’t have created a backup so she would have immediate access to those e-mails to defend herself?
There is a backup. She won’t say where it is, but there’s a backup.
Listening to the video at post 12 will shed light on the concept of why it was not marked “classified”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3327071/posts?page=12#12
The original info was not in email format:
“Someone had to steal info from the SCIF to get it to Hillary. SCIF can’t communicate with regular internet.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3327042/posts?page=17#17
No cell phones allowed in the room and there are separate rooms for various levels of classified info.
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