MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ,COURT-ORDERED DISCOVERY ON CLINTON EMAILS BENGHAZI SCANDAL BEGINS
Tom Fitton, the President of conservative watchdog group "Judicial Watch" made a
big announcement regarding Hillary Clinton's email and Benghazi scandal.
Fitton announced that Clintons attorney will now be forced to testify under oath, on both
matters.
Furthermore, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice and her deputy Ben Rhodes
will both have to answer written questions under oath.
Judicial Watch began this quest back in early January.
From Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch announced today that it submitted a court-ordered discovery plan for the depositions
of several top former government officials involved in the Clinton email scandal, including
Obama administration senior officials Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Jacob Sullivan, and FBI
official E.W. Priestap.
Judicial Watch "intends to update the Court regarding the depositions of Hillary Clinton
and Cheryl Mills at the conclusion of the 16-week discovery period, unless the Court
believes such notice is not necessary."
The plan for discovery is the latest development in Judicial Watch's July 2014 FOIA lawsuit
filed after the U.S. Department of State failed to respond to a May 13, 2014 FOIA request
(Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)).
Judicial Watch seeks: Copies of any updates and/or talking points
given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency concerning, regarding,
or related to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Any and all records or communications concerning, regarding, or relating to talking points or
updates on the Benghazi attack given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency.
The Judicial Watch discovery plan is response to a December 6, 2018, ruling by Judge Royce
C. Lamberth ordering the State Department and Department of Justice to join Judicial
Watch in submitting discovery in three distinct areas:
Whether Secretary Clinton's use of a private email server was intended to stymie FOIA;
B. Whether the State Department's intent to settle the case in late 2014 and early
2015 amounted to bad faith; C. Whether the State Department has adequately searched for
records responsive to Judicial Watch's request.
In his ruling, Lamberth called Clinton's use of the private email server "one of
the gravest modern offenses to government transparency."
Judicial Watch seeks the depositions of former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and former White
House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodesabout the creation and dissemination
of the infamous Benghazi talking points because: "No one other than these individuals know
better who they were communicating with and where records might be located."
Judicial Watch also argues for "direct, unfiltered access to [additional] key witnesses
with firsthand knowledge and the opportunity to ask follow-up questions" about the illicit
Clinton email system.
In its pursuit of answers as to whether former Secretary Clinton's use of a private email
server was intended to stymie FOIA, Judicial Watch seeks to conduct the following depositions:
Jacob Sullivan, Senior advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff throughout Secretary Clinton's
tenure.
Clarence Finney (Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat Staff)" the principal advisor
and records management expert in the Office of the Secretary who was responsible for control
of all correspondence and records for Clinton and other State Department officials."
Finney is also among the State Department officials in the emails discussing the processing
of the CREW FOIA request and other requests concerning the former Secretary's email
account.
Jonathon Wasser, who worked for Finney and who actually conducted searches for records
in response to FOIA requests …" FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence
E.W. Priestap, "who supervised the Clinton email investigation."
Priestap has not explained "the nature or extent of the FBI's efforts, such as who
the FBI attempted to contact, who the FBI actually talked to, who the FBI requested
records from, who actually provided records, and whether the FBI believes those that they
requested records from actually returned all of the requested records."
Justin Cooper (employee of President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation).
Cooper created and managed the clintonemail.com server.
His testimony to Congress also appears to contradict portions of testimony provided
by former Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
Eric Boswell (Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security).
On March 6, 2009, Boswell wrote in an Information Memo to Cheryl Mills that he "cannot stress
too strongly … that any unclassified BlackBerry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely
and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving email, and exploiting calendars."
A March 11, 2009 email states that, in a management meeting with the assistant secretaries, Secretary
Clinton approached Boswell and mentioned she had read the IM and that she "got it."
Heather Samuelson (Senior Advisor & White House Liaison).
Until her tenure at the State Department ended in March 2013, Samuelson was tasked with tracking
the FOIA request served by CREW.
Samuelson subsequently served as one of Secretary Clinton's personal attorneys and, in 2014,
reviewed the clintonemail.com account to identify federal records.
The records returned by Clinton in December 2014 were records identified by Samuelson.
Judicial Watch argues that, "as the Court has already recognized, understanding the
context of the preparation and dissemination of the [Benghazi] talking points is central"
to the Clinton email scandal.
For instance, did the State Department know that Clinton "deemed the Benghazi attack
terrorism hours after it happened, contradicting the Obama Administration's subsequent claim
of a protest-gone-awry?"
Was the State Department aware that "Clinton sent or received top-secret information through
her private email?"
Incredibly, Justice Department attorneys admit in a filing opposing Judicial Watch's limited
discovery that "Counsel for State contacted the counsel of some third parties that Plaintiff
originally included in its draft discovery proposal to obtain their client's position
on being deposed."
This collusion occurred despite criticism from the Court that the DOJ engaged in "chicanery"
to cover up misconduct and that career employees in the State and Justice Departments may have
"colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this Court."
Judicial Watch countered that "[t]he government's proposal, which is really nothing more than
an opposition to [Judicial Watch's] plan, demonstrates that it continues to reject any
impropriety on its part and that it seeks to block any meaningful inquiry into its 'outrageous
misconduct.'"
"President Trump, frankly, should demand to know why the State and Justice Department
are colluding with Clinton allies and trying to protect Hillary Clinton and themselves
from court-ordered questions on the Clinton email scandal," said Judicial Watch President
Tom Fitton.
"But a federal court wants answers – and Judicial Watch discovery plan is a key step
to uncovering whether and how Hillary Clinton email misconduct stymied FOIA."
This Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit led directly to the disclosure of the Clinton email system
in 2015.
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