Judicial Watch Statement on State Department Admission regarding Clinton-Deleted EmailsSEPTEMBER 07, 2016
Washington DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding newly released documents from the State Department, which were deleted from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s non-state.gov email system and uncovered by the FBI. Dated October 2012, near the end of her tenure at State, the documents contain praise for Clinton’s congressional testimony regarding Benghazi.
“These new Benghazi-Clinton emails prove that Hillary or her lawyers deleted material which proved to be responsive to federal court orders and congressional subpoenas,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Clinton’s email cover-up scheme is as plain as day.”
The documents were released hours before the State Department’s midnight court filing deadline. Yesterday evening the State Department represented that it anticipated being able to produce these documents by Thursday, August 8, 2016. At the same time, State Department for the first time explained that the other emails State Department considers “duplicate” and which it is not producing contain metadata that was not previously produced. Judicial Watch objected to the withholding of these records as they contain new information not previously produced and are responsive to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Following Judicial Watch’s stated objection, the State Department produced the records prior to its anticipated Thursday proposed deadline.
Judicial Watch has asked the court to have “State produce all remaining responsive records with the included metadata within one week – by Tuesday, September 13, 2016.”
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