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2017-08-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-

FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary emails justifies withholding documents

Clearly the FBI has not surveyed Rantburg.

[Wash Times] Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.

Ty Clevenger, the lawyer, has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal lawyers disbarred for their handling of her official emails during her time as secretary of state. He’s met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the FBI’s files has been shot down.

"You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject," FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.

"It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA," Mr. Hardy wrote.

Mrs. Clinton, is the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former chief diplomat, former U.S. senator, and former first lady of both the U.S. and Arkansas. Her use of a secret email account to conduct government business while leading the State Department was front-page news for much of 2015 and 2016, and was so striking that the then-FBI director broke with procedure and made both a public statement and appearances before Congress to talk about the bureau’s probe.

In the end, the FBI didn’t recommend charges against Mrs. Clinton, concluding that while she risked national security, she was too technologically inept to know the dangers she was running, so no case could be made against her.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 That's strange. Nobody asked me.

Posted by gorb 2017-08-30 01:28|| 2017-08-30 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet another splendid opportunity for our apparently disengaged Attorney General.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-30 02:12|| 2017-08-30 02:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Great, we live in a society that pursues crime based on Niellson ratings.

Posted by jack salami 2017-08-30 09:37|| 2017-08-30 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 "You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure..."

Because the MSM covered that and related news with a pillow until it stopped moving.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-08-30 09:39|| 2017-08-30 09:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Get a court order?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-30 09:41|| 2017-08-30 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm coming to the conclusion that the FBI and the CIA need a Stalin style purge

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-08-30 10:34|| 2017-08-30 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, the fine legalese distinction of the term public's interest, almost poetic in its sophistry! Remember the following gems:
“My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says that there was any violation of law whatsoever in the manner in which I asked people to contribute to our reelection campaign.”
―Al Gore

Posted by magpie 2017-08-30 12:42|| 2017-08-30 12:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Deep state at work.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-30 12:59|| 2017-08-30 12:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Example of the law being made-up on the fly. And then there is the other ploy of using the law to break the law.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-30 13:41|| 2017-08-30 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 There are some efforts to start petitions to "pressure" the FBI to release this information. Attorney Ty Clevenger and citizen journalist Bill Still are encouraging people to sign these petitions.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-30 14:45|| 2017-08-30 14:45|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-30 14:51|| 2017-08-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Too busy running USPS mail scams.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-30 18:55|| 2017-08-30 18:55|| Front Page Top

#13 That was the USPS investigative service.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-30 19:34|| 2017-08-30 19:34|| Front Page Top

#14 "I was afraid they would kill me if I didn't do what they wanted! You know how those drug gangs operate!"

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-30 21:57|| 2017-08-30 21:57|| Front Page Top

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