Posted on 12/05/2016 2:44:49 PM PST by jazusamo
News Media Organizations Also on Record Supporting Public Release
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today announced it filed a motion that seeks to unseal the audiovisual recordings of the depositions of top Clinton aides and State Department officials. The depositions come in connection with a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to former Secretary Clinton ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). Judicial Watch argues that “even though the election is over, the news media and the public continue to monitor and follow the proceedings in this case.” A coalition of 19 news media organizations is already on record with the Court supporting public access to the videos.
The motion is opposed by the State Department, as well as Abedin, former State Department Director of Information Resource Management of the Executive Secretariat John Bentel (who took the Fifth Amendment in response to questions at his deposition); Cheryl D. Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff throughout her four years as secretary of state; and Bryan Pagliano, State Department Schedule C employee who has been reported to have serviced and maintained the server that hosted the “clintonemail.com” system. Pagliano also asserted his Fifth Amendment right in refusing to answer questions in his deposition in this case.
Judicial Watch argues:
[T]he Court has stated, “The public has a right to know details related to the creation, purpose and use of the clintonemail.com system.”
Because the public has a right to know, the audiovisual recordings of the depositions in this case must be unsealed. The sole reason for sealing the recordings in the first place was to avoid their misuse during the 2016 campaign season. Now that the election is over that reason no longer exists.
Prior to her deposition, Mills moved for a court seal on the audiovisual recordings of her deposition . Subsequently, the court granted Ms. Mills’ motion and also sealed the audiovisual recordings of all depositions until further notice.
“The public and the media have a right to see these deposition videos of top officials from the Clinton State Department,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The courts and the continued work of Judicial Watch is clearly the only hope of bringing sunlight into the Clinton email issue and completing the public record.”
For the full history of this case, click here.
Probably won’t happen until Jan 20 when we will once again have adults in the White House.
And the rule of law will once again be applied equally and fairly...
Judicial Watch should back off!! The whole issue should settle in the dust until after Jan 20. By then it will be too late for Obama to issue a pardon.
The people have a right to know! ;-)
Just because they review something, does not mean they don’t know how to plan their complaints on what they find. They are attorneys, I’m sure tgey know what to do.
Amen to that, and that may be a good thing for justice.
oh sure...like some CORRUPT LEFTIST Judge is going to do this....yeah....Unicorns will fly our of Obama;s ass before this happens.
On September 8, 1974, president of the United States Gerald Ford issued Proclamation 4311, which gave Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president.
After Ford left the White House in 1977, he {Ford} privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915,) a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision which suggested that a pardon carried an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carried an imputation of confession.[8]
In 2001, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award to Ford for his pardon of Nixon.[9] In presenting the award to Ford, Senator Ted Kennedy said that he had initially been opposed to the pardon of Nixon, but later stated that history had proved Ford to have made the correct decision.[10]
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