Associated Press Sues U.S. State Department To Force Release Of Clinton Emails

[krawhitham]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/ap-sues-state-department_n_6847146.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.

The legal action comes after repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act have gone unfulfilled. They include one request AP made five years ago and others pending since the summer of 2013.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Clinton broke her silence about her use of a private email account while secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/ap-sues-state-department_n_6847146.html

[mmonk]

1. As they should. I still believe in the FOIA. But I also think there is no there, there.

Also the media hypocrisy on the Bush years is deafening.

[4139]

2. Flashback: Keystone XL Suit: Environmental Groups Target Hillary Clinton Over Oil Pipeline Documents

The groups suspect that the documents, sought through a Freedom of Information Act request filed in December, contain communications between Clinton and a lobbyist representing TransCanada, the company behind the proposed pipeline, known as the Keystone XL project.

The lobbyist in question, Paul Elliott, formerly served as a deputy campaign director for Clinton's failed presidential bid in 2008. The State Department is currently considering whether to grant TransCanada a permit for the Keystone pipeline, without which the project cannot go forward....
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/863925

We'll never know