Deep State to the Rescue

[Mystic Wanderer]

This is what the Deep State Swamp looks like.    

A federal appeals court panel has unanimously overturned a lower-court order requiring Hillary Clinton to provide a sworn deposition about her use of a private email account and server during her four years as secretary of State.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 3-0, that the conservative group Judicial Watch was not entitled to depose Clinton in connection with an 8-year-old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records of details about information national security adviser Susan Rice discussed during interviews in 2012 about the deadly attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

 

During the protracted litigation surrounding the email saga, Clinton answered written questions under penalty of perjury about her email practices.

However, in March of this year, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the former first lady, Cabinet official and two-time Democratic presidential candidate to sit for a deposition. Lamberth, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan who has tangled with Clinton administration aides in a series of cases for decades, called Hillary Clinton’s earlier answers "incomplete, unhelpful, or cursory, at best."

But the appeals court ruled Friday that Lamberth’s order was a “clear abuse of discretion.”
D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins suggested it was time to consign the Clinton email imbroglio to the history books.

“Secretary Clinton … provided eleven hours of public testimony before the House Select Committee, and has answered countless media inquiries on the matter,” wrote Wilkins, an appointee of President Barack Obama. “These facts underscore both the impropriety of the District Court’s Order and the appropriateness of turning the page on the issue.”

Wilkins called the proposed topics for Clinton’s deposition “completely attenuated from any relevant issue in this case.”

Wilkins’ 25-page opinion was joined by George W. Bush appointee Thomas Griffith and Obama appointee Nina Pillard.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the group is mulling its next steps. “We’re disappointed by the decision and considering our options,” Fitton said.

Longtime Clinton attorney David Kendall passed up a chance to publicly celebrate the court’s ruling. “The Court’s opinion speaks for itself,” he said via email.

During Clinton’s four years in Obama's Cabinet, she relied on a private email account and server for both her work-related and personal messages. The practice led to a storm of controversy that roiled her 2016 presidential bid and is widely viewed as contributing to her defeat by Donald Trump.

In response to press questions during the campaign and in the sworn statement, Clinton said she kept the private account and server after taking over as secretary of State in 2009 as a matter of convenience and not to avoid the Freedom of Information Act or other disclosure requirements. The FBI investigated, interviewed Clinton and recommended against criminal charges, but it did find dozens of messages in her account that officials said contained highly classified information.

However, Lamberth said in his March ruling that the FBI probe and representations by the State Department had not adequately put to rest questions about the episode.

"To argue that the Court now has enough information to determine whether State conducted an adequate search is preposterous," Lamberth wrote.

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This is disappointing, but for those who want to know the truth, it's all laid out in the Q posts. One of many reasons the Deep State is smearing them at every turn.

[guohua]

There is nothing you or anyone can do, the D. C. courts are all Democrats and Controlled by the Deep State and YES, they will do everything in their Power to Protect their own Evil Spawn of Satan.
No different than the N.Y. courts, all the judges were appointed by Liberals to Protect Liberals.

[drussell41]

This is what the Deep State Swamp looks like.    

I know I'm being unworthily shallow, but....   well, here it is.   I look at that hair and think, "What beautiful hair!   Beautiful young woman." and get to that face, and have a gut reaction of horror, like I just stumbled across the cryptkeeper. It's so incongruent.