LF: State Department provided ‘clearly false’ statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, ‘shocked’ federal judge says

Title: State Department provided ‘clearly false’ statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, ‘shocked’ federal judge says
Source: FromThe Trenches/FOX News
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Published: Oct 18, 2018
Author: FOX News
Post Date: 2018-10-19 06:58:57 by Deckard
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In a combative exchange at a hearing Friday in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department officials of lying and signing “clearly false” affidavits to derail a series of lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said he was “shocked” and “dumbfounded” when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton’s server, according to a court transcript of his remarks.

“I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case,” Lamberth said during Friday’s hearing.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General (IG), Michael Horowitz, noted in a bombshell report in June that it was “inconsistent with typical investigative strategy” for the FBI to allow Mills to sit in during the agency’s interview of Clinton during the email probe, given that classified information traveled through Mills’ personal email account. “[T]here are serious potential ramifications when one witness attends another witness’ interview,” the IG wrote.

On Friday, Lamberth, who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, said he did not know Mills had been granted immunity until he “read the IG report and learned that and that she had accompanied [Clinton] to her interview.”

The transparency group Judicial Watch initially sued the State Department in 2014, seeking information about the response to the Benghazi attack after the government didn’t respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Other parallel lawsuits by Judicial Watch are probing issues like Clinton’s server, whose existence was revealed during the course of the litigation.

The State Department had immediately moved to dismiss Judicial Watch’s first lawsuit on a motion for summary judgment, saying in an affidavit that it had conducted a search of all potentially relevant emails in its possession and provided them. The affidavit noted that some more documents and emails could be forthcoming.

But Lamberth denied the request to dismiss the lawsuit at the time — and on Friday, he said he was happy he did, charging that State Department officials had intentionally misled him because other key documents, including those on Clinton’s email server, had not in fact been produced.

“It was clear to me that at the time that I ruled initially, that false statements were made to me by career State Department officials, and it became more clear through discovery that the information that I was provided was clearly false regarding the adequacy of the search and this – what we now know turned out to be the Secretary’s email system,” Lamberth said Friday.

He continued: “I don’t know the details of what kind of IG inquiry there was into why these career officials at the State Department would have filed false affidavits with me. I don’t know the details of why the Justice Department lawyers did not know false affidavits were being filed with me, but I was very relieved that I did not accept them and that I allowed limited discovery into what had happened.”

During a tense exchange with Justice Department lawyer Robert Prince, Lamberth pressed the issue, accusing Prince of using “doublespeak” and “playing the same word games [Clinton] played.”

That “was not true,” the judge said, referring to the State Department’s assurances in a sworn declaration that it had searched all relevant documents. “It was a lie.”

But Prince pushed back sharply, saying he took the judge’s accusations “extremely seriously.”

“It might be that our search could be found to be inadequate, but that declaration was absolutely true,” he said.

“Now, it’s been made clear in rulings by various courts that, basically, the courts are going to expect us to search items that come in afterward in this instance, and that’s understandable, but at the time, that was not at all clear, you know?” Prince continued. “I understand if Your Honor thinks that the searches that were done up to the motion for summary judgment were inadequate, but being wrong about the search being adequate does not make it a false affidavit.”

Lamberth ultimately conceded that he had “misremembered” some details on the issue.

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In a statement, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who was present at the hearing, pushed the White House for answers.

“President Trump should ask why his State Department is still refusing to answer basic questions about the Clinton email scandal,” Fitton said. “Hillary Clinton’s and the State Department’s email cover up abused the FOIA, the courts, and the American people’s right to know.”

The hearing was held because Judicial Watch is seeking to compel Clinton and other officials to testify and provide more information as part of its lawsuit.

Clinton has since blamed Republicans and groups like Judicial Watch for derailing her presidential bid in 2016.

“Take the Benghazi tragedy—you know, I have one of the top Republicans, Kevin McCarthy, admitting we’re going to take that tragedy—because, you know, we’ve lost people, unfortunately, going back to the Reagan administration, if you talk about recent times, in diplomatic attacks,” Clinton said on NBC’s “Today” in an interview last year. “But boy, it was turned into a political football. And it was aimed at undermining my credibility, my record, my accomplishments.”

BENGHAZI MASTERMIND SENTENCED TO 22 YEARS IN PRISON ON FEDERAL TERRORISM CHARGES

Four Americans were killed in the attack on the Benghazi embassy, and the Clinton State Department was faulted for ignoring security concerns in the run-up to the attack, contributing to the poor defense posture at the post.

The independent government Accountability Review Board that examined the tragedy concluded there were “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels” at the department that “resulted in a Special Mission security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place.”

Then-national security adviser Susan Rice claimed on several talk shows that the attack was caused by a YouTube video, even as e-mails uncovered after the fact revealed that administration officials knew the incident was the result of terrorism. Officials at the State Department were stunned by Rice’s appearances, according to the emails, with one State Department employee suggesting Rice had gone “off the reservation.”

Rice has since openly suggested she is considering running against Maine moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins because of her vote to support Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Rice called Collins’ speech announcing her vote a “paean to disingenuousness and incoherence.”

But Collins has downplayed any potential challenge from Rice.

“As far as Susan Rice is concerned, her family has a home in Maine, but she doesn’t live in the state of Maine,” Collins said earlier this month. “Everybody knows that.”

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So basically your dysfunctional "solution" is to send anybody who dares contradict the opinions and modes of (group)thinking of the emperor and his imperial underwear weavers to the Gulags for reeducation.

Is that how Comrade First Father in law climbed so high on the Soviet manure pile?

You're wrong sir. I should decide who goes to the gulag. Call it individual thought.

I've read that quote at the Jefferson Memorial. Inspiring words. Those words don't support you at any of your causes you push here.

Oh, which "causes" are those, according to the glob of coagulated sand lodging atop your shoulders?

Although that panel does contain clues that lead to the Virginia Act - a mental reprobate like you would more likely take the needle off the compass and use it for a toothpick... rather than use it for any fruitful navigational purpose.

When you stop being an asshole I will put you back to full posting. Have a good day.

I'm not lying. I went to DC last year and made the long walk in the hot sun to Jefferson's Memorial. It was my favorite site as I consider Jefferson the best president or one of the best.

I don't get the impression that (D)onaldo The Magnificent has managed to wobble over there and digest what's written on the walls.

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

Your adhominem impotence is as flacid as the Toad Warrior's performance with the Porn Star.

Anybody who recognizes the fact that under him, the Russia is reforming within her Orthodox Christian traditions.

Can you prove otherwise? Because if I am correct on that that means you are wrong.

Anybody who gives a shyte about what (D)onaldo the Magnificent was and IS really colluding with.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2016/june/no-evangelizing-outside-of- church-russia-proposes.html

In America we are free to worship as we choose. In Russia Putin says no to spreading the word.

You may like the fact that if Putins law was in affect here we would be arrested for spreading Gods word.

Why is that surprising, given the traditional role of the Orthodox state- establishment?

Too bad (D)onaldo the Magnificent and his cult can't articulate the related FIRST PRINCIPLES codified in the Virginia Act, and further constituted in the 1st Amendment.

A: The Illiterate "Prophet"
or
B: The Hebrew Gospel-quoting cousin of his grifter financier wife, Khadijah.

You mean like His word is "spread" and twisted in the plethora of "churches" in America in the spirit of anti-Christ: Perverting forgiveness of sin in to PERMISSION to sin?

"It just depends on, again, how it is going to be enforced, and that is a very huge question mark.”

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2016/june/no-evangelizing-outside-of- church-russia-proposes.html

It's the "every jew" kanard that organized criminals have been hiding behind for centuries.

Were Moses and GOD "anti-semitic" when Korah and his fellow miscreants were entombed alive?

..in along with those who defacto legalized their abomination, again, circa 1963?

No, my logic is that Putin knows the difference between Moses and organized criminals like Korah, Felix Sater, and those who worship the golden calf with them.

Ezek 16:55-58 55 And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before. 56 You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride, 57 before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines — all those around you who despise you. 58 You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your detestable practices, declares the Lord. NIV

Ez 16:58 58 You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your detestable practices, declares the Lord.

See, you don't get to have it both ways, pebbles. If you're gonna bleat out of your arse like a televangelical grifter about Gaaaaawds special people - then include the CONSEQUENCES of historical association too, while yer prancing around the barnyard praying for doomsday and the rapture.