Tuesday, February 23, 2016

"Judge threatens subpoena against Clinton over emails"

Washington Times: A federal judge warned Tuesday that he may have to subpoena former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s entire secret email account, saying he has real questions about whether the Obama administration gave her special treatment.
In the interim, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said he was granting discovery to Judicial Watch, a public interest law firm who’s sued to get a look at the emails, meaning the group will be able to demand the State Department explain who approved Mrs. Clinton’s server, how many officials knew about it, and what accommodations they made to her after her emails become a public issue.
And the judge said he is “inclined” to issue a subpoena eventually, forcing the department to go back to Mrs. Clinton and demand she turn over the entire clintonemail.com system she and top aide Huma Abedin used during their time in the department. He withheld that order for now, saying he will wait to see what discovery produces, but said he’s concerned with the chain of events that led to the emails being shrouded in secrecy for so many years.
“How on earth can the court conclude there is not at minimum a reasonable suspicion of bad faith,” Judge Sullivan said.
In the meantime, Washington Examiner has a story saying released Clinton emails may show aides try to hand pick State Department's inspector general.
Hillary Clinton's private emails indicate the former secretary of state and her closest aides may have played a role in selecting inspectors general that oversaw work from their agency.
In a 2010 exchange between Clinton and Cheryl Mills, then her chief of staff, the two discussed an unnamed "IG candidate" and whether he would be a good fit for the agency.
Margaret Carpenter, a former official at the U.S. Agency for International Development, wrote to key Clinton aides in March 2010 to note that "Cheryl approved nominating" an individual, whose name was redacted, to an inspector general position and asked how to proceed in an email made public Friday evening that was first flagged by the Wall Street Journal.  "Let me know if you DON'T want to proceed," Mills told Clinton.

14 comments:

Amartel said...

The theme from Jaws should play in the background of this post.

AllenS said...

I hope that Judge Emmet G. Sullivan doesn't sleep with a pillow over his head.

virgil xenophon said...

Keep peeling that Onion! Clintons only hope is that an eventual Presidential win will short-circuit the process. But I'm not even sure that would stop it with a Federal Judge now involved. Should the Hildabeast somehow be elected we could eventually have a real constitutional crisis on our hands. (Unless judge Sullivan strolls too near Fort Marcy Park, that is..)

edutcher said...

Those 4 guys will get justice yet and, yes, 9/12/16 will soon be upon us.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

She is corrupt and OObama is covering for her. He must.

Jim in St Louis said...

I'm not so sure, an Obama justice department would have to push this. Obama knew about the server and took no action. So Obama deemed it to be no threat to security for HRC to have her own emails.

Methadras said...

Everything I've said so far is playing out true. There is no way that if any of us did this that we wouldn't be in shackles and in a 6 x 9 right now awaiting trial and being convicted. No way.

Chip Ahoy said...

This post should have a happy song. Um…

Some day… I'm gonna gitcha.

I'm gonna gitcha.

I'm gonna gitcha gitcha gitcha gitcha

Oh, someday, I'm goona gitcha…

repeat.

bagoh20 said...

Bad girl, bad girl
whatcha gonna do
whatcha gonna do
when they come for you?

I really wish the Republicans would nominate my goldfish, just to see if he could win.

ndspinelli said...

Basta w/ the pillow over the head. Scalia had diabetes, coronary disease and was a smoker and morbidly obese. It's impressive he made it to 79.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

She used her stint at State to stuff Clinton foundation coffers, and the rest of the government yawned and looked the other way.

edutcher said...

AprilApple said...

She is corrupt and OObama is covering for her. He must.

She knows where he was when Woods, Doherty, Smith, and Stevens were dying.

Trooper York said...

I bet if she dies with a pillow over her head they will do an autopsy.

Methadras said...

Trooper York said...

I bet if she dies with a pillow over her head they will do an autopsy.


All they'll find is bitterness and dust.