The judge said Judicial Watch must submit its questions to Clinton by Oct. 14 and gave Clinton 30 days to respond – a timetable that could push Clinton’s answers past the November presidential election unless Judicial Watch sends its questions earlier than mid-October.
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According to Conason’s retelling, Clinton replied that she had already made a decision to continue using the private server in her home she had relied on during her 2008 presidential bid. I’m scared by the thought of either of the candidates governing the Western world to be honest! During the court proceedings, Clinton’s email – and the question of whether or not she deliberately sought to hide information normally subject to FOIA – has been a central topic of discussion.
“The Court is persuaded that Secretary Clinton’s testimony is necessary to enable her to explain on the record the objective for the creation and operation of the clintonemail.com system for State Department business”, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan wrote in his order Friday.
In a statement provided to the Associated Press, Powell said he emailed Clinton describing his use of a personal AOL account for unclassified messages while leading the State Department under President George W. Bush.
In March 2015 she was explicit: She used her personal email account instead of the state.gov email account so she didn’t have to carry two devices.
Honesty: Remember back when Hillary Clinton insisted that she chose to use a private email account for all her emails for convenience, because she only wanted to carry around one device? He said he used the State Department’s systems to handle classified information.
The first source is Hillary Clinton herself: NYT referred her account to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the notes of which were handed over to Congress earlier in the week.
However, the State Department overhauled its email protocols when Clinton assumed the office and forbade private servers like the one Clinton used, according to the Times.
“Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications…”
They had asked for a three-hour window to question her, less than the seven hours they were given to question several current and former State Department officials last month. The group sued the State Department for relevant documents.
Michael Bekesha, the lawyer for Judicial Watch, insisted there were outstanding questions that only Clinton could answer about why she set up the server, and argued there would be value in having her testify to those motivations under oath.
Sullivan granted Judicial Watch discovery for the goal of finding out the reason for “the creation and operation of the clintonemail.com system for State Department business”.
Judicial Watch said it was happy with the ruling.
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The officials, though, didn’t seem so concerned about the safeguarding of classified information when it was housed on a private server owned by their boss, Clinton.
