Posted on 09/10/2015 12:19:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Lawyers with the Justice Department on Thursday told a federal court that Hillary Clinton had the legal right to use her own email account and broke no laws in how she handled those messages, The Washington Times is reporting.
The lawyers defended the former secretary of state in a legal filing, saying they have no right to order Clinton to turn over any more emails or documents than those she has already given back to the government.
"There is no question that Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails without agency supervision she appropriately could have done so even if she were working on a government server," the DOJ lawyers said, according to the Times. "Under policies issued by both the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the State Department, individual officers and employees are permitted and expected to exercise judgment to determine what constitutes a federal record."
Clinton used her private email account and home server in lieu of the official government email system while she served as top diplomat from 2009 to 2013.
Judicial Watch, which has filed several law suits and records requests regarding Clinton's emails said the administration is ignoring its own rules.
Indeed, the State Departments own rules specify that personal records of a departing presidential appointee may not be removed from the government until the State Department records officer in cooperation with the S/ES or appropriate administrative office approves of the removal, a process which generally requires a hands-on examination of the materials, Judicial Watch said to the Times.
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Good. This was getting too wide.
All the Justice Department said is that a government employee can delete personal e-mails.
Everyone knew that all along.
Now, we can get on to the meat of the matter.
This is the best Summer I’ve had since I was a kid!
Attaway Hillary!
Keep dragging down the Democrat Party!
whats the purpose of having rules if people under them are self supervising?
OBAMA HAS DAMNING E MAILS BACK AND FORTH WITH HILLARY.
SHE WALKS
It’s the marxist/fascist democrat way.
Transparent lies. Everyone knows that destroying potential evidence in the middle of an investigation is completely illegal.
Even if Hillary did nothing else wrong (ha!), deleting those emails was a felony.
Is this satire?
They cut a deal with her.
In return for this, she will drop out of the race to make room for Biden, or someone else Obama picks. Bet on it.
ha ha. Absurd! but entertaining...
an Onion parody of the current WashDC administration, no doubt?
It was my understanding she was never assigned a .gov email account at State, much less used it.
Having Justice under the executive made sense when we were talking about enforcement of federal laws against the people. However, when investigating the executive, or any agency of the federal bureaucracy, there needs to be a separate counsel and investigative arm not answerable to the executive, but to the American people.
That job was supposed to be Congress through its impeachment power. But back then, it never occurred to Madison, Hamilton or Jefferson that criminal investigation and prosecution, or the lack thereof, would be entirely political. I’ll re-read the Federalist Papers for this, but I don’t think it came up.
The state department lawyers are basically saying hillary is free to have a PERSONAL email account and delete her PERSONAL emails. This was not being used as a personal email account. This just confirms the state department is as corrupt as the rest of government cabal.
See? Hitlery is clean and pure. Loretta Lynch says so.
Except it’s never permissible to use private or unsecured email accounts or systems to transact official government business. Since she did, we can’t definitively prove that sensitive official emails weren’t deleted.
This is a case where the official is giving an opinion of a narrow hypothetical.
Loretta Lynch is about worthless as Eric Holder.
If Nixon had Obama's Attorney Generals he would never had been impeach.
And who gets to define what’s “personal” and what’s “official” on your own private server?
My guess is that Biden deided not to run. Otherwise the obama admin would dump on her.
Really? And you believe that. Betcha the secretarypantssuit.gov email address was reserved for her before she ever entered her office. Staff doing what they're supposed to do so the new SecState can hit the ground running. SOP
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