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| Suit against Hillary Clinton over Benghazi deaths and emails is dismissed |
| 2017-05-27 |
| [Yahoo] Jackson dismissed the wrongful death portion of the suit on technical grounds after granting the State Department's motion to step in as the defendant on those claims. The Obama-appointed judge concluded Clinton used her email in the course of her official duties. "The Court finds that Secretary Clinton was acting in the scope of her employment when she transmitted the emails that are alleged to give rise to her liability," Jackson wrote in her 29-page opinion. "The untimely death of plaintiffs’ sons is tragic, and the Court does not mean to minimize the unspeakable loss that plaintiffs have suffered in any way. But when one applies the appropriate legal standards, it is clear that plaintiffs have not alleged sufficient facts to rebut the presumption that Secretary Clinton was acting in her official capacity when she used her private email server." Jackson cautioned that she was not opining on the appropriateness of Clinton's use of the private server or on whether what she said publicly about the Benghazi episode in its immediate aftermath. "Nothing about this decision should be construed as making any determination or expressing any opinion about the propriety of the use of the private email server or the content or accuracy of the statements made by the Secretary to the family members or to anyone else in the days following the Benghazi attack," the judge wrote. Jackson added that she was also not making a determination about whether Clinton's use of the private server was legal or not. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 I hate Hillary. That said - the case was lame, other than Discovery Fun. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-05-27 20:38 |
| #1 The judge who dismissed the case was an Obama appointment. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-05-27 16:55 |