“We will move quickly to get these answers”, Tom Fitton, the group’s president, said in a statement.
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Sullivan’s order says Judicial Watch must submit its queries to Clinton by October 14, and she must respond within 30 days.
In a brief ruling issued yesterday afternoon, the judge, Emmet G. Sullivan of the federal district court in Washington, approved a motion by the conservative advocacy organisation Judicial Watch to pursue its campaign to expose Clinton’s use of the server.
“The answer is everything from a man who questions the citizenship of the first African-American president, courts white supremacists, and has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of colour”.
The group, Judicial Watch, was hoping the judge would order Clinton’s testimony after filing a request for its Freedom of Information Act suit last month.
“This is just another lawsuit meant to try to hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and so we are glad that the judge has accepted our offer to answer these questions in writing rather than grant Judicial Watch’s request”, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement to Fox News.
Under fire from congressional Republicans for potentially perjuring herself, a federal judge ruled Friday that Hillary Clinton owes the American people more answers on her lingering email scandal.
The dinner conversation took place months into Clinton’s tenure at State after she had set up the unsecured email server which she used for both classified and unclassified material.
Only six weeks ago, the director of the FBI, James B. Comey Jr, declined to recommend prosecuting Clinton, saying that while her actions had been careless, they did not amount to a crime.
In early July, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said no charges would be brought against Clinton for using the private email server.
The State Department is conducting its own review.
In a weird twist in the running sore that is the ongoing email server scandal, the notes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation interview with Hillary Clinton, released in redacted form to Congress, revealed that the Democratic presidential candidate blamed Colin Powell for the arrangement.
In a statement, Powell’s office said he wrote Clinton an “email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department” while also noting that “at the time there was no equivalent system with the department”.
An official non-classified email system was installed in 2009, the same year Clinton arrived.
Another fact: As secretaries of state, Powell and Clinton followed different security practices.
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The aide, John Bentel, a career foreign service officer who has since retired, was one of the officials in the state department who seemed to be aware of Clinton’s use of the server.
