with holy water ... the only thing that works is "The power of CASH compells you!"
Posted on 07/15/2016 11:00:07 AM PDT by jazusamo
Lawyers for Hillary Clinton made their second court filing in a week on Friday aiming to block a federal judge from having her be deposed as part of an ongoing open records lawsuit connected to her email setup.
In a filing at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Clinton’s legal team called the request from conservative organization Judicial Watch “futile and inappropriate.”
The group is relying on “nothing more than speculation” by claiming that Clinton’s use of a private server was a deliberate effort to thwart the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the former secretary of State’s lawyers claimed. They pointed to recent comments by FBI Director James Comey, who this month finalized a yearlong investigation into Clinton’s emails, claiming that Clinton’s setup appeared to have been created for convenience.
Clinton’s response to questions about the setup “would undoubtedly be ‘I don’t know,’” the lawyers added.
And Judicial Watch has offered “no reason to suspect” that Clinton would be in any way helpful in the case.
Clinton’s legal team made a similar argument earlier in the week, claiming that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would have nothing to offer the case beyond already public material about the private email setup, such as the FBI’s investigation and facts uncovered by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. That filing was the first time that Clinton’s personal legal team has intervened in the matter, which has been going on for nearly three years.
The judge in the case, Emmet Sullivan, has previously allowed for Judicial Watch to interview seven current or former State Department staffers, including close Clinton allies such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills. Sullivan has said that Clinton herself may be ordered to answer questions as part of the case, which evolved from a simple FOIA request to broader concerns about violations of open records law.
Oral arguments in the case have been scheduled for Monday.
Clinton’s lawyers on Friday claimed that Judicial Watch’s FOIA request will be satisfied, following the FBI’s promise to hand thousands of deleted work emails back to the State Department and the department’s pledge to release them to the public.
“If the FBI will provide those materials to the department, there is no need to engage in additional discovery to determine whether FOIA requires the department to acquire Secretary Clinton’s e-mail account on an ‘intent to thwart FOIA’ theory,” they claimed. Discovery is the technical term for the evidence-gathering stage of a trial that includes depositions.
In their filing, the lawyers also claimed that they are not aware of anyone else having possession of the emails Clinton sent or received through her private account while serving as secretary of State.
In addition to Clinton’s lawyers, the State Department also made a filing of its own on Friday, claiming that Judicial Watch’s efforts to interview Clinton and two other officials were “unrelated” to the core of its lawsuit and made “on no more than a bare hope of develop evidence of an intent to avoid FOIA.”
Too big to derail.
“Too big to derail.”
I hope if they are successful in stopping the derail of her run, I hope they don’t see the washed out bridge ahead.
BTW, who is paying for these lawyers or are they just some in house counsel working on their lunch breaks over at the Crime Family Foundation?
Bump!
They never recorded Hillary’s interview(LOL) because they were afraid someone would request or leak it
Well what a surprise, Block Hitlary’s interview answers.....that’s the total and most important evidence that would put old “burro bottom” behind bars. Any judge with a right mind would NOT block that because without it, there is no case.
Yep...I can’t believe Comey could keep a straight face when he said she wasn’t under oath and it wasn’t recorded, her interview was nothing but a dog and pony show.
How convenient, no recordings!
Lying to the FBI is a felony, no oath needed. Hillary was questioned with her attorneys, who no doubt instructed her to meaningfully answer almost nothing. Thus, no recording or transcript, and probably only very brief notes. A scam.
“Most transparent Administration EVAH.”
Were are the smelly socks missing from the Exorcist scene?
I don’t know, I never understood that line about “your mother knits socks in Hell”, what was that all about?
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