Hillary Clinton’s “Inappropriate”
Appeal to Avoid Judicial Watch Testimony
“The DOJ and State have said that Hillary Clinton has gone too
far for their liking,” Tom Fitton states in last week’s Weekly
Update.
Hillary Clinton’s “desperate motion to the appellate court” has done
little to stop Judicial Watch’s unrelenting effort to uncover the full
extent of the Clinton email scandal. Filing a writ of mandamus,
“essentially suing the court for… abusing her ‘indisputable right’
not to testify,” Clinton and Mills claim a protected status as ex-high
government officials. However, their appeal “doesn’t offer a single
case from this court or any other suggesting that high level government
officials should not be required to follow regular appellate channels,”
Fitton continues.
Judicial Watch has also challenged Clinton’s argument that she
“held the server under a claim of right,” despite containing thousands
of federal records. Contrary to legal precedent, “Clinton did not obtain
an opinion from State’s legal advisor as to whether she could take the
federal records prior to her departure from State.”
In recent statements, the State Department and Justice Department have
also openly clashed with Clinton’s claim, describing it as
“inappropriate” according to Fitton. However, despite the fact that
“many questions remain unanswered, the Justice Department inexplicably
still takes the position that the court should close discovery and end the
case.” In response, the District Court followed by stating the
following:
“To argue that the court has now enough information to determine
whether State conducted an adequate search is preposterous, especially when
considering State’s deficient representations regarding the existence of
additional Clinton emails. Instead, the court will now authorize a new
round of discovery.”
Having “reasonably concluded that Clinton’s previous explanations
for using a private server are cursory, incomplete and seemingly at odds
with what discovery has yielded to date,” it would indeed be
“preposterous” to end the case here. With her original deposition
scheduled for May 16th, “I expect the appellate court should move pretty
quickly,” Fitton states. “My guess is that they’ll have a phone
hearing, which may be live-streamed.”
Even though Hillary Clinton considers a new round of discovery in the
District Court to be “an abuse of discretion, the court agrees with
Judicial Watch. It’s time to hear more from secretary Clinton,” Fitton
concludes.
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