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2017-08-10 Government

Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails

[Politico] Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the State Department had not done enough to try to track down messages Clinton may have sent about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11, 2012 -- an attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, State searched the roughly 30,000 messages Clinton turned over to her former agency at its request in December 2014 after officials searching for Benghazi-related records realized she had used a personal email account during her four-year tenure as secretary.

State later searched tens of thousands of emails handed over to the agency by three former top aides to Clinton: Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan. Finally, State searched a collection of emails the FBI assembled when it was investigating Clinton's use of the private account and server.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-10 09:12|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Soetoro holdovers sabotaging the investigative effort.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-10 09:20|| 2017-08-10 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 If one reads this judges bio, he appears to be very left-leaning. After law school, Judge Mehta worked in the San Francisco office of the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP before clerking for the Honorable Susan P. Graber of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Judge Mehta worked at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, Judge Mehta joined the District of Columbia Public Defender Service as a staff attorney. Judge Mehta returned to Zuckerman Spaeder in 2007, where his practice focused on white-collar criminal defense, complex business disputes, and appellate advocacy.

Judge Mehta served on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and is the former co-chair of the District of Columbia Bar’s Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section Steering Committee.

Even if he orders new searches for Clinton emails, can we trust him to carry out justice?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-10 09:46|| 2017-08-10 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 "Even if he orders new searches for Clinton emails, can we trust him to carry out justice?"

The left eats there own, if the Clinton faction is on the downslide there are lots of folks willing to take a whack.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-10 10:03|| 2017-08-10 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 I am old enough to remember the infighting between the Southern/Flyover Country "Centrist Bloc" that the Clintons mobilized and the Coastal City Poor/Elite "Manhattan/Cali Cocktail Club". So the division is there under the surface.
As soon the HillBill Cash Machine dries up they will turn on them like a pack of hyenas.

Posted by magpie 2017-08-10 10:34|| 2017-08-10 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 The Clintons stepped on enough people on the rise up and to stay up that if they are on the slide down, and their blood is in the water, they will be devoured by their own side.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-10 10:57|| 2017-08-10 10:57|| Front Page Top

#6 If there are any left to find after all this time, she really is stupid.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-08-10 11:00|| 2017-08-10 11:00|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 The Clintons stepped on enough people on the rise up and to stay up that if they are on the slide down, and their blood is in the water, they will be devoured by their own side.

#4 As soon the HillBill Cash Machine dries up they will turn on them like a pack of hyenas.

From your lips to God's ears.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-10 11:04|| 2017-08-10 11:04|| Front Page Top

#8 State searched everything BUT their own servers.

Posted by Frank G 2017-08-10 11:08|| 2017-08-10 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Somewhere yesterday there was a rumor about a pleas deal for Hilda inferring that the Russkies had all or her emails including the ones about criminal behavior, and our side had them as intercepts/exploits. Pleading out before they are revealed is her only way of avoiding utter catastrophe. Anyone have corroboration to this Klein-based rumor

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-08-10 11:40|| 2017-08-10 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 I heard about it, and then checked to see if I had enough salt on hand. (I do.) We will see, or we won't.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2017-08-10 12:04|| 2017-08-10 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 In other news: OJ to resume search for 'real killers' upon his release.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-10 12:50|| 2017-08-10 12:50|| Front Page Top

#12 For those interested, here is the article I read about the possible plea deal.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-10 15:19|| 2017-08-10 15:19|| Front Page Top

#13 The judge could also be an annoyed Bernie voter. Liberal/left does not necessarily mean the judge loves Mrs. Clinton -- if that were true, the party would not have deserted her for Barak Obama, who was still in his first year as senator when he started campaigning.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-10 18:34|| 2017-08-10 18:34|| Front Page Top

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