Sunday, December 9, 2018

Federal Judge Calls Clinton Emails One Of 'Gravest Modern Offenses To Government Transparency,' Orders Further Fact-Finding

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On Thursday, a federal judge ordered further investigation into officials' handling of Hillary Clinton's private email server during her four-year tenure as secretary of state. Her use of an unapproved, unsecured private email server, he said in the blistering ruling, is "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency."
The ruling revolves around a Freedom of Information Act suit brought by a conservative government watchdog. Judicial Watch, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled Thursday, should be given access to documents and be permitted to acquire additional testimony about Clinton's use of a private server and officials' failure to be transparent about information searches related to it.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth
Judge Lamberth's opinion, published by Politico, begins by quoting former President Barack Obama, who, on his first full day in office, waxed eloquent about the importance of transparency in government and declared his administration's commitment to FOIA: "In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through transparency, is the most prominent expression of a profound national commitment to ensuring an open government. ... All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open government. The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA."
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Knock yourselves out. Investigate Hillary til the cows come home for all I care. But she's not president, and she's never going to be president.

The real problem of the moment is Trump. Whether it's the lies, the trade wars, the malfeasance, the wrecking ball foreign policy, or his sheer stupidity, every moment he is president, we are in danger.

-Martha