Utterly functionless exercise. What will come out of a depo? That she didn’t know that whatever she writes or transmits as SOS is by default classified? (or better, meaning MORE secret?) That she wasn’t aware? That she didn’t mean to? THat nobody with the ability to classify a document ever notified her that what she may be writing or transmitting MIGHT be classified or could be considered classified? That she’s already furnished those emails (even though roughly 1300 she DID NOT disclose have been discovered? That she violated the irreducible black letter agreement she signed with the 0bama admin when she took office?
This is an exercise designed to generate the same kind of crap Issa did, this dual-possibility tree of meaning chained together 6 times so that there are 2E6 possibilities? Stupid. The facts required to indict here are already in incontrovertible evidence.
“Utterly functionless exercise. “
Maybe, but the optics during a presidential election are seriously not good for her. Just another of the myriad of “nails” being driven into her coffin.
I think the original case was a request under the Freedom of Information Act. The judge agrees with the plaintiff that the response to the original request was deficient and that the plaintiff may investigate who was responsible for the deficiency.
It may well be that Hillary was personally responsible for responding to the request and she may have to explain how she managed not to respond appropriately. It would certainly be difficult for her to claim that she didn't know about her own secret email server.
Evidently, this has nothing to do with the criminal case being pursued by the FBI.
Instead, it is related to the FOIA case brought by Judicial Watch. Most of what we in the public know about Hillary's e-mails and the server arrangement has come from the FOIA case.
Since it’s a civil suit she can’t take the fifth. If she does she can be held in contempt of court. That applies to her aides too. If they lie, it adds fuel to the fire since the FBI would be able to use that against them.
Hillary and her aids are in a very sticky situation.
Expect a perjury charge before the convention. The rest can wait.