Hillary Clinton Can't Duck Out of Benghazi Testimony by Citing Official Privilege, State Dept. Says
"In a devastating move, the State Department has joined with Judicial Watch in claiming that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cannot dodge a court-ordered deposition in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking "talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack." This FOIA request uncovered Clinton's insecure private home-brew server in 2015.
On March 2, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted Judicial Watch's request to depose Clinton and her former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, in the search for more Benghazi documents. Specifically, Judicial Watch was given the green light to probe Clinton on whether or not she used a private email server to evade FOIA. On March 13, lawyers for Clinton and Mills filed a writ of mandamus, claiming that the former secretary of State could refuse the deposition due to her previous government office. State, represented by Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers, filed a brief arguing against the mandamus claim on Monday.
"Pursuant to this Court’s Order of March 20, 2020, the Department of State respectfully submits this response to the petition for a writ of mandamus. The government did not seek and thus does not support the extraordinary relief of mandamus due to the unique circumstances of this case," the brief states.
The DOJ brief does not defend the deposition orders, but it does insist that mandamus is not applicable in this case."
'TRY AGAIN':
In essence, the U. S. State Department officially stated that Hillary Clinton's claim of being exempt from giving testimony due to having served in office as Secretary of State is not valid and that the claim should be dismissed / rejected. You can bet that the Clinton's host of lawyers will file another motion consisting of a different argument for her not testifying / being deposed under oath.
Despite all of the spinning and denial by Hillary, Democrats, and snowflakes, Hillary Clinton and her close associates/team broke numerous laws - the FBI, to include the Director of the FBI, publicly stated this.
All personal servers must be authorized, encrypted, secured, and the set-up inspected and approved before use - none of this was the case with Hillary's server.
Unclassified / For Official Use Only / Classified information must legally be separated and kept on 2 separate servers - her server contained both Unclass and Class information.
Once her time as Secretary of State was up and she left office, she was 'read out of' higher-than TOP SECRET programs (Special Compartmentalized programs) that included a signed document making it clear she was never to possess any information regarding these programs or speak of them again....yet files / information about several of these programs were found on her personal server.
Huma Abedin was found to have downloaded EVER Hillary e-mail (classified and unclassified e-mail and file) onto her personal home laptop, which was not authorized / encrypted - the same home laptop that rested on her husband's naked junk as he sexted under-aged girls.
The FBI publicly exposed that they had found THOUSANDS of official subpoenaed documents Hillary had attempted to delete (Obstruction), documents that also revealed criminal violations of both the FOIA and Federal Records Act each, as none of the documents had been turned over to the State Department for archival mandated by law.
Then FBI Director James Comey publicly declared Hillary Clinton had indeed broken laws but based HIS decision not to recommend indictment (which was not his job)
based on the defense that ignorance of the law, in Hillary's case, was an acceptable defense for not prosecuting.)
** President Obama attempted to lie to the country by telling the media he did not find out about Hillary's illegal server until the news reported it....yet investigations revealed Obama had been e-mailing Hillary's private server for months while using an alias.
The State Department distanced themselves during the early non-investigation of Hillary (exposed by the US IG) by confirming all of the official subpoenaed documents found by the FBI on her server had NOT been turned over to the State Department for archival.
Now the State Depart6ment, dragged back into her scandal again, has told a federal judge that her having served previously as Secretary of State is not justification enough to exempt her from finally having to be deposed under oath (something the FBI admitted they never did).
As stated, don't expect Hillary and her army of lawyers to roll-over, accept this, and comply.
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