How refreshing to occasionally find our government officers forced to do what is right for a change. Judicial Watch sued the DOJ for its Benghazi records that the DOJ refused to turn over in spite of being required by law to do so. That obstruction ended up exposing Hillary's illegal use of a private server to hide her corrupt activities related to foreign governments and officials donating to her Clinton Foundation slush fund.
Judicial Watch Settles Lawsuit that Uncovered Hillary’s Unsecure Emails
We settled our historic 2014 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that sought the emails of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the Benghazi attack. This suit led directly to the disclosure of Clinton’s use of a nongovernment email server to conduct government business (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242). The settlement commits the State Department to a payment to us of $97,000.
This lawsuit, about the Benghazi scandal, forced the Obama administration to admit to Hillary Clinton’s hidden classified and other government emails in 2015. We uncovered “talking points” created by the Obama White House and other documents showing that statements about the attack made on the eve of the 2012 elections by then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice were false.
On December 6, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers and Clinton aides, as well as Susan Rice, to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. Judge Lamberth called the Clinton email system “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”
On March 2, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth authorized us to depose Clinton about her emails and the existence of relevant Benghazi attack documents. The court also ordered the deposition of Clinton’s former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other State Department officials. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in an extraordinary intervention, exempted Clinton and Mills from testifying under oath.
The Clinton email scandal uncovered by our simple FOIA lawsuit changed the course of American history and led to Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016.
Our historic lawsuit is now officially over and settled through a remarkable payment of $97,000 by the corrupt State Department. Hillary Clinton ignored the law but received special protection from both the courts and law enforcement. For countless Americans, this double standard of justice destroyed their confidence in the fair administration of justice. Americans would never have known about Hillary Clinton’s classified email and related pay-for-play criminality but for our diligence.
Tom Fitton <jw@pr.judicialwatch.org> | |
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