Judge Demands Hillary Deposition Over Emails, Private Server
“To argue that the Court now has enough information to determine whether the State conducted an adequate search is preposterous…”
D.C. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to sit for a deposition over her use of a private server when she served as secretary of state.
Judicial Watch continues to demand more rounds “of discovery.” Lambert agrees because “the Court is left with more questions than answers” after every release in relation to Hillary’s emails and servers:
State asks the Court to close discovery and to move this case towards dispositive motions and an eventual resolution. But there is still more to learn. Even though many important questions remain unanswered, the Justice Department inexplicably still takes the position that the Court should close discovery and rule on dispositive motions. The Court is especially troubled by this. To argue that the Court now has enough information to determine whether the State conducted an adequate search is preposterous, especially when considering State’s deficient representations regarding the existence of additional Clinton emails. Instead, the Court will authorize a new round of discovery as follows.
The Court granted deposition of Hillary only when it comes to her “private server and her understanding of State’s records management obligations.” It denied a deposition on other matters requested by Judicial Watch except when it comes to the Benghazi attack records:
The Court holds that Secretary Clinton and Ms. [Cheryl] Mills cannot be questioned about the underlying actions taken after the Benghazi attack, but they may be questioned about their knowledge of the existence of any emails, documents, or text messages related to the Benghazi attack. Such inquiries would go to the adequacy of the search without expanding the parameters of discovery to include the substance of the government’s response to the attack.
The court granted these depositions and subpoenas:
- Brett Gittleson: Director of the Office of the Secretary, the Executive Secretariat’s Information Resource Management
- Yvette Jacks: Deputy Director of S/ES-IRM and assisted with troubleshooting the private server
- Paul Combetta: IT specialist “involved with the transfer and deletion” of emails
- Subpoena “Google for relevant documents and records associated with” Hillary during her time as secretary of state
- Cheryl Mills: Counselor and chief of staff for Hillary at the State Department
The Court denied Judicial Watch’s request for “two additional interrogatories on State.” This includes asking the department to “[i]identify the number of FOIA lawsuits pending in 2014 that sought records relevant to Secretary Clinton’s emails from her tenure at the State Department.” The second request wanted the department “to identify the number of lawsuits the State Department attempted to settle from January 2014 through February 2015.”
The Court sided with the State Department because it found both requests “ambiguous, unduly burdensome.” Lamberth added that the second request is “disproportionate the needs of the case.” Plus the information Judicial Watch wants is “related to internal settlement discussion, which likely would be protected by the work-product doctrine.”
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They should video this deposition and make it available to law students as an instructional on evasion.
Correct..Consider this “White Water II”. It will be a series of “I can’t remember” that was the basis of a Limbaugh parody of “Try to Remember” song. Wait long enough and even the questioners will forget what to ask.
closer to WhiteWater 36 or whiteWater 50+
“I can’t remember”
“Not that I can recall”
“No, even after your efforts to refresh my memory, I come up blank”
And on and on it will go.
HILLARY CLINTON PARODY: Try to Remember – Shanklin nailed her,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQureIC1QM
Arkansas Alzheimers
Whitewater…
Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn’t remember, didn’t know, or something similar.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
Hillary Clinton 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O’Connor 343
Dwight Holton 348
Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697
FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton’s Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.
I don’t remember – 71
I don’t know – 62
I’m not sure – 17
I have no idea – 10
I don’t believe so – 9
I don’t recall – 8
I don’t think so – 8
I don’t have any specific recollection – 6
I have no recollection – 4
Not to my knowledge – 4
I just don’t remember – 4
I don’t believe – 4
I have no specific recollection – 3
I might have – 3
I don’t have any recollection of that – 2 I don’t have a specific memory – 2
I don’t have any memory of that – 2
I just can’t say – 2
I have no direct knowledge of that – 2
I don’t have any idea – 2
Not that I recall – 2
I don’t believe I did – 2
I can’t remember – 2
I can’t say – 2
I do not remember doing so – 2
Not that I remember – 2
I’m not aware – 1
I honestly don’t know – 1
I don’t believe that I did – 1
I’m fairly sure – 1
I’m not positive – 1
I certainly don’t think so – 1
I don’t really remember – 1
I would have no way of remembering that – 1
That’s what I believe happened – 1
To my knowledge, no – 1
To the best of my knowledge – 1
To the best of my memory – 1
I honestly don’t recall – 1
I honestly don’t remember – 1
That’s all I know – 1
I don’t have an independent recollection of that – 1
I don’t actually have an independent memory of that – 1
As far as I know – 1
I don’t believe I ever did that – 1
That’s all I know about that – 1
I’m just not sure – 1
Nothing that I remember – 1
I simply don’t know – 1
I would have no idea – 1
I don’t know anything about that – 1
I don’t have any direct knowledge of that – 1
I have no other recollection – 1
I just don’t know – 1
I really don’t know – 1
I can’t deny that, I just — I have no memory of that at all – 1
Big deal. Nothing, I repeat nothing, will ever happen to Hillary Clinton. She’s talked her way out of every legal mess she’s been in to date and I don’t doubt she’ll do the same with this. And even if she is required to present herself for a deposition she’ll just put her thick, black retard glasses on once again and talk her way out of any problems. Because really, at this point why does it matter. She’s never going to be held accountable for her criminal acts. Never.
She’s killed her way out of Every legal mess.
There, fixed it for you.
she better be careful, or she’s likely to be suicided, like so many other people that have had dirt on her…
Odds that the judge commits suicide within 60 days?
here is the important points here.
First, the fact that even a blind California liberal can see that HRC blatantly violated thee law, with regard to her server. It is so obvious that the judge granted the motion for depositions of HRC and her closest aides for discovery purposes.
Second, the judge still intends to shield HRC and the government as much as possible. The number of FOIA requests should actually be public record. The number of lawsuits, regarding FOIA requests, should also be public record. Neither request is a matter of national security or harms the government or its mission in any way. Declining to order such disclosure only serves to protect current members of the government.
The only real value here will be in making that serpent hiss and spit venom in all directions. Make it a pay per view event.
I’m guessing bho gave hillary a secret get out of jail free card, since he was hoping she would give him one after she won the 2016 election. I bet he gave himself one anyway and stashed it with the passports brennan ginned up for him. You know, like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.
Maybe it was a good thing she wasn’t elected president. To have this bout of upcoming forgetfulness might have put the country as risk, don’t you think?
I have zero faith that justice will be found with Hillary.
The words: Clinton, responsibility, honor, accountability cannot be used in the same paragraph.
I assume that the White House has someone ready for confirmation hearings after they are appointed to replace the soon-to-be-late Judge Lamberth.
Subotai Bahadur
Maybe she’ll drop dead during the deposition. Hopefully, it’ll be on video.
Judge Lambert’s family might be wealthy if HRC sticks to precedent.
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