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In April, Judicial Watch announced that E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assis director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, had admitted in writing and under oath that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President.
Now Judicial Watch has obtained 44 pages of records from the State Department through court-ordered discovery revealing that the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 FOIA request seeking records concerning Clinton’s use of an unsecure, non-government email system.
Months after the Obama White House involvement, the State Department responded to the FOIA requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), falsely stating that no such records existed.
Judicial Watch stated that the discovery is centered upon whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the FOIA by using a non-government email system and whether the State Department acted in bad faith in processing our FOIA request for communications from Clinton’s office.
Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, as well as E.W. Priestap, to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The court ruled the Clinton email system was “one of the gravest modern offenses to gov't transparency.”
The IG “found evidence that Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills was informed of the request at the time it was received …” The State Dept produced records in response to court-ordered document requests that detail Obama White House involvement in the Clinton email FOIA request.
