Clinton Forced to Submit Sworn Testimony in Email Case
Hillary Clinton is set to answer questions about her team’s destruction of roughly 30,000 emails when she submits testimony Thursday in a high-profile lawsuit over her State Department records.
Clinton will be forced to describe the creation and operation of the server system that was kept in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y. home during her time as secretary of state, as well as the steps her staff took to separate work-related emails from private ones in 2014.
Her responses to the 25 questions posed by Judicial Watch, the conservative-leaning group that brought the suit, will be considered sworn testimony by a federal judge.
Judicial Watch attorneys deposed six current and former Clinton aides in May and June — including Huma Abedin, vice chair of Clinton’s campaign, and Bryan Pagliano, the technology aide whose immunity deal with the Justice Department was the first to emerge publicly from the FBI investigation of Clinton’s emails.
One additional deposition — with John Bentel, former IT manager at the State Department who later received one of the five immunity agreements provided during the FBI probe — is scheduled for later this month.
But a judge stopped short of allowing the group to depose Clinton, opting instead to permit a written inquiry that Clinton would have 30 days to answer.
The court had originally asked Clinton to submit her testimony by Sept. 29, but her legal team successfully negotiated a two-week extension due to the demands of “campaign business.” Clinton’s legal team has until midnight Thursday to hand over her responses.
Alternately, her lawyers could inform Judicial Watch and the court Thursday that they have submitted the answers through the U.S. mail, in which case the group must wait several days to review them.
The testimony comes after several days of document dumps from Wikileaks, which illegally obtained up to 50,000 emails from the inbox of John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair. Podesta’s correspondence shows just how carefully the campaign managed what was said publicly about Clinton’s private emails as controversy over her private server use grew in the early months of her campaign.
Clinton has avoided discussing her private emails on the campaign trail. When confronted during the second presidential debate with the FBI’s conclusion that she was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information, Clinton simply admitted that she had erred and declined to discuss specifics.
Her testimony Thursday will offer the most extensive insight into Clinton’s personal knowledge of the email controversy to date.
Since her last public discussion of the situation, House Republicans have revealed her team’s use of a digital deletion tool called BleachBit to erase emails and the existence of four previously-undisclosed immunity agreements. Clinton has not yet acknowledged either development.
The responses she submits to Judicial Watch will compel her to answer for inconsistencies in her past statements, such as the claim that she used a personal email address for “convenience” and her erroneous statement before the House Select Committee on Benghazi that the State Department was already in possession of the vast majority of her emails when she turned over 30,000 of them to the agency in 2014.
H/T – WashingtonExaminer
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Deposing again? How about the gallows for Hillary, Bill, all staffers and campaign staff, Barry Soetoro, the DOJ HEA, FBI HEAD, AND CIA HEAD, AND THROW IN CURRENT ADMINISTRATION OPERATIVE AND EVEN THOSE WHO LEFT BARRYS ADM8NISTRATION. THEY ARE ALL COMPLICIT, AND I’M LIVID!!!!
I bought the news media line that F.B.I. head James Comey was Mr. integrity and a straight shooter. What a mistake. Unprecedented immunity and so called side agreements opened my eyes. The last straw learning Comey’s brother had direct financial links with the Clinton foundation.
The level of corruption that is now the American Government is unprecedented; there are third-world radical dictatorships that are marveling at the level of corruption on display in our Country….
What Hillary, the Obama’s and many others in gov’t and outside of it ACTUALLY DESERVE and what is our civil way of handling our worst offenders are two completely different critters: The Clinton family, The Bush family, the Obama Family…..DESERVE TO GET WHAT HILLARY DID TO GADDAFI….THEY DESERVE TO BE DRAGGED OUT OF THEIR BEDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN THEIR PJ’S BY THEIR HAIR, HANDCUFFED AND THROWN INTO A WAITING VEHICLE…..TRANSPORTED TO AN UNDERGROUND PRISON FACILITY TO AWAIT PUBLIC TRIALS; THEY DESERVE NOT AN OUNCE OF GENTLENESS…..THEY DESERVE A MATTRESS ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR, BREAD AND WATER DIETS, AND TO BE CONSIDERED ENEMY COMBATANTS, TREASONOUS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DANGEROUS ENEMIES TO BE DEALT WITH HARSHLY; THEY SHOULD GET ONE PHONE CALL AND THEIR CHOICE OF A SINGLE LAWYER EACH ON OUR TIMELINE AND AT OUR DESCRETION, NOT THEIRS. NO TEAMS OF HIGH-FLOOTIN’ NEW YORK LAWYERS IN $10,000.00 SUITS, NO DEMANDS TO BE MET, ONLY BASIC PROTECTION FROM THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO WANT THEM ALL TORTURED AND KILLED INSTEAD OF TRIED IN A MILITARY COURT.
FROM ME, HILLARY WOULD ONLY GET SPECIAL TREATMENT IN THAT SHE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE ANY SEIZURE MEDICATION SHE’S ON, AND ONLY BECAUSE I’D WANT THE WITCH ALIVE TO BE PUT ON PUBLIC TRIAL………AND MICHELLE OBAMA? SHE’D GET A FREE MEDICAL EXAM COMPLIMENTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ONLY TO LIFT UP THAT FLUFFY DRESS TO FIND OUT IF THERE’S IS IN FACT A PENIS UNDERNEATH OF IT. THE TWO OBAMA KIDS WOULD BE LET OUT BUT ONLY ON THE WRITTEN LEGAL PROMISE TO NEVER ENGAGE IN POLITICS IN AMERICA FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THEIR LIVES…..BUT NOT CHELSEA….OH NO, THAT VILE-MOUTHED WRETCHED MEAN CREATURE WILL STAY RIGHT THERE BEHIND BARS JUST LIKE HER MOTHER…..SHE IS NO BETTER, A CRIMINAL WHO TREATS EVERYONE SHE MEETS LIKE A PILE OF DOGSHIT, AND THATS EXACTLY HOW SHE WOULD GET TREATED JUST TO DO HER THE FAVOR OF ENLIGHTENING HER TO THE ERROR OF HER WAYS…CONSIDER IT A “LIFE INTERVENTION”. THESE PEOPLE DESERVE TO BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE BREATHING UNTIL TRIAL, NOTHING MORE. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MORE….Just like what they allowed the Haitian people after stealing their $6 Billion dollars in equake relief money, then having their fake charity foundation dump toxins into their only source of drinking water….giving the entire Haitian population CHOLERA; the Clintons left them throwing up and with diarrhea with no toilet facilities, AND NO MEDICAL CARE TO HELP THEM WITH THE DISEASE THAT THEIR OWN FOUNDATION ADMITTED TO CAUSING IN THE FIRST PLACE…..THE CLINTONS ARE BARBARIC, EVIL….THEY DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYONE, OF ANY COLOR, OF ANY AGE, OR ANYTHING ELSE. IF YOU ARE NOT IN THEIR ELITE CIRCLE OR AT THEIR FEET WITH OIL BLESSINGS, YOUR FUTURE WON’T BE WORTH A BUCKET OF PISS. THIS IS WHAT HILLARY VOTERS ARE DOING TO THE REST OF US; SHE WANTS TO END THE UNITED STATES AND REPLACE IT WITH GLOBAL DICTATORS; NO MORE CONSTITUTION; NO MORE FIRST OR SECOND AMENDMENTS; OUR CITIES OVERRUN BY TERRORISTS AND WAR LORDS. TAKE A LOOK AT SWEDEN, AT GERMANY, AT PARIS. THEY AREN’T EVEN ABLE TO KEEP TOURISM ALIVE ANYMORE, BECAUSE ITS TOO DANGEROUS TO GO THERE. THE NATION STATES ARE GONE; SIMPLY GONE. AND AMERICA IS NEXT IF HILLARY IS ELECTED. AND IF SHE IS ELECTED, I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE IT MY LIFE MISSION TO PUBLISH THE NAMES OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTED FOR HER SO THAT THEY CAN GET A KNOCK ON THEIR DOOR BY THE MILLIONS OF US WHO DON’T WANT TO LIVE LIKE SLAVES NOR DO WE WANT OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURES TO BE DESTROYED, BUT THATS WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO ALL OF US WITH THEIR STUPIDITY AND THEIR IGNORANT VOTING. THEY WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR IT, I HAVE NO DOUBT….BUT GOD PLEASE DON’T LET IT HAPPEN. GOD HELP US ALL AND HELP US FIGHT THESE EVIL BASTARDS WHO SHOULD BE BEHIND BARS, NOT RUNNING FOR OFFICE. WHAT THE HELL HAVE WE BECOME? COWARDS? WOULD SOME RATHER BE SLAVES AND HAVE THEIR MEALS HANDED TO THEM THAN BE FREE AND GO GET THEIR OWN HAMBURGER? IS THAT WHAT WE HAVE BECOME? GOD I HOPE NOT.