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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thus, there were no private e mails
I'm not a lawyer and don't play one on TV but from time to time I use lawyer speak
Just saw a picture of Hillary from today on Fox News. What a visual it was. Yesterday she wore a bright orange pants suit; today she was wearing a black and white horizontal striped top! Who is advising her anyway?
bttt
A fellow traveler of Bernie Sanders?
So who’d going to do anything about it? Lynch? Yea right.
She keeps making a point that “it wasn’t classified when I sent them.” What does this mean, and does it make any sense?
[[Just saw a picture of Hillary from today on Fox News. ]]
Does she look worried? I fear she’s not the least worried.
Hillary is not worried. She knows that her and Bill are above the law. This is not Hillary’s first rodeo by a long shot. Her entire political life has been filled with violating one law after the other. She has violated with impunity the same laws that have seen others sent to prison for violating. No, Hillary is not worried one whit. And yes, hell has a better chance of freezing over than she does of being indicted.
Well, a person can hope, can’t they? But it seems that all the inside folks, like Carville, are unfazed so.... no doubt you are right.
Trust me, I know where you are coming from. The next news headline I want to read about the Clintons is died suddenly or suddenly died. Those two have been responsible for the death of more people than father time.
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