Government watchdog group Judicial Watch, went to court this morning in Washington, D.C. to ask Rex Tillerson’s Department of State to “recover emails of former Secretary of State Hilllary Clinton” and other Department of State employees.
The group had this to say about the hearing:
The hearing will focus on the next steps in light of the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that required Secretary of State John Kerry (now Secretary Rex Tillerson) to seek the help of the attorney general in recovering additional Hillary Clinton emails.
The Federal Records Act states that an agency head “shall” initiate an action through the Attorney General when he becomes aware of any unlawful removal of agency records. The Obama State Department refused to do this. The Trump State Department apparently intends to do the same. This despite the recent D.C. Circuit ruling that the State Department had not proved it had done enough to recover missing emails and that an enforcement action must be sought unless “no imaginable enforcement action by the Attorney General could lead to recovery of the missing emails.” Neither the State Department nor anyone else has ever contended that all the emails have been returned.
This will be the first hearing since Judge James E. Boasberg granted Kerry’s lawyers motion to dismiss. Judicial Watch then won on appeal and Judge Boasberg reversed the decision on December 27, 2016.
Despite the president’s campaign criticism of Hillary Clinton’s email practices and the protection of her illegal behavior by the Obama administration, the Trump State Department told Judicial Watch this week that it would continue to object to asking the Attorney General to take steps to recover Clinton’s emails.
Judicial Watch has been the top organization pursuing Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and, during the Clinton Administration, filed suit against Bill and Hillary Clinton over numerous others issues including Filegate, Chinagate, Travelgate, etc.
The Clinton Administration was sued over 100 times by Judicial Watch.
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