Thread by @JudicialWatch

BREAKING: In a ruling excoriating both the State Dept & the DOJ, U.S. District Court Judge Lamberth ordered both to join Judicial Watch in submitting a discovery plan into whether Hillary Clinton tried to evade FOIA by using a private email system. (1/10)
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Judge Lamberth also ordered that the proposed discovery plan to cover whether the State Department acted in “bad faith” by failing to disclose knowledge of the private email system that Hillary Clinton set up while she was Secretary of State. (2/10)
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Judge Lamberth ruled: “The Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into... whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA…” (3/10)
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Judge Lamberth also ruled: “The Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into… whether the State Department’s attempts to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith.” (4/10)
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Judge Lamberth further ruled: “The Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into…whether State has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s requests.” (5/10)
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Judge Lamberth also called Clinton’s use of her private email system “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.” (6/10)
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The federal judge criticized the State Department & the Justice Department: “At best, State’s attempt to pass-off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence...” (7/10)
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The federal judge further criticized the State Department & the Justice Department: “At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this Court.” (8/10)
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JW President @TomFitton: “The historic court ruling raises concerns about the Hillary Clinton email scandal and government corruption that millions of Americans share.” (9/10)
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JW President @TomFitton: “Judicial Watch looks forward to conducting careful discovery into the Clinton email issue and we hope DOJ & the State Dept recognize Judge Lamberth’s criticism and help, rather than obstruct, this court-ordered discovery.” (10/10)
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