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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:04 AM Feb 2017

Federal judge blocks access to redacted Hillary Clinton emails

Source: International Business Times


22 FEB 2017 AT 08:38 ET

Judicial Watch, a conservative group attempting to get access to State Department records related to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, was denied permission on Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that the documents don’t indicate any evidence of government “malfeasance.”

The judgment concluding that none of the redacted emails suggested any “hints of nefarious government action or motive in responding to that conduct,” came in response to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch on May 6, 2015, after it made a Freedom of Information Act request on March 17, 2015.

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, who himself reviewed the 30 disputed records, wrote: “the Court….concludes that Judicial Watch has not provided a sufficient basis to believe that the information withheld by the State Department would shed light on any government misconduct.”

Details about internal government documents are usually exempt from declassification under the FOIA, but Judicial Watch said that the records were proof of alleged wrongdoing.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/federal-judge-blocks-access-to-redacted-hillary-clinton-emails/

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Federal judge blocks access to redacted Hillary Clinton emails (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
I'm sick of hearing about Hillary's damn emails Achilleaze Feb 2017 #1
Oh my....I remember when certain DUers couldn't laud Klayman more....nt msanthrope Feb 2017 #2
Klayman has left Judicial Watch. Archae Feb 2017 #5
Yes, I'm well aware that Klayman left the group he founded, and the Taitz lawsuit. msanthrope Feb 2017 #6
Yup. calimary Feb 2017 #11
I've had it with this RW persecution of Hillary meow2u3 Feb 2017 #3
Good. Now let's see Chaffetz get smacked down as well. yellowcanine Feb 2017 #4
The repugs are chasing the wrong story Marthe48 Feb 2017 #7
Not only headlines, but votes Nwgirl503 Feb 2017 #9
On one hand I believe in transparency retrowire Feb 2017 #8
They need to accept the win and move on BainsBane Feb 2017 #10

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. I'm sick of hearing about Hillary's damn emails
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:24 AM
Feb 2017

as an honorable American famously once said, and as all decent and honest American agree.

Republicans can just go jam the treachery and traitory of their degenerate family-values role model Comrade Casino and his Cabal of Cronies up their freaking borscht-stained kiesters.

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
6. Yes, I'm well aware that Klayman left the group he founded, and the Taitz lawsuit.
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 11:05 AM
Feb 2017

It was pretty hilarious.

But I never pass up the opportunity to remind DU of the support of the likes of JW and Klayman.

meow2u3

(24,759 posts)
3. I've had it with this RW persecution of Hillary
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:31 AM
Feb 2017

Enough with the freakin' emails. Get over it, RWNJs, for once in your misbegotten lives!!

yellowcanine

(35,693 posts)
4. Good. Now let's see Chaffetz get smacked down as well.
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:33 AM
Feb 2017

It is long past time for these fishing expeditions into Hillary Clinton's emails to stop.

Marthe48

(16,898 posts)
7. The repugs are chasing the wrong story
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 11:24 AM
Feb 2017

If they really want to be in the headlines, go after the traitor Putin puppet trump,and all of his traitorous staff. Any repug who can man up and go after the real criminals could make it interesting--take bets on how many traitors can be brought down. Compare it to Watergate's catch.

Nwgirl503

(406 posts)
9. Not only headlines, but votes
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 12:38 PM
Feb 2017

2018/2020 the conversations are going to be how the Repugs fell so fast. If they'd just get a backbone and not be so obvious about their power and money grab, they'd secure a lot of the swing votes they all received. All they're doing is ensuring the pendulum is going to swing back Dem. And they could do it without all the gerrymandering, voter suppression tactics and illegal, backroom BS.

Not that I'm encouraging them to smarten up, but damn if people aren't shortsighted.

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
8. On one hand I believe in transparency
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 12:12 PM
Feb 2017

On the other, can they just leave Hillary alone now? They won. Then they went after pizza gate, they need to find another fucking windmill.

BainsBane

(53,012 posts)
10. They need to accept the win and move on
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 12:43 PM
Feb 2017

The right succeeded in destroying her politically. They won. Now move the fuck on.

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