Poll of the Day > Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/08/09/judge-orders-searches-for-clinton-benghazi-emails-241470

Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the State Department had not done enough to try to track down messages Clinton may have sent about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11, 2012 — an attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, State searched the roughly 30,000 messages Clinton turned over to her former agency at its request in December 2014 after officials searching for Benghazi-related records realized she had used a personal email account during her four-year tenure as secretary.

State later searched tens of thousands of emails handed over to the agency by three former top aides to Clinton: Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan. Finally, State searched a collection of emails the FBI assembled when it was investigating Clinton's use of the private account and server.

In all, State found 348 Benghazi-related messages or documents that were sent to or from Clinton in a period of nearly five months after the attack.

However, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch argued that the search wasn't good enough because State never tried to search its own systems for relevant messages in the official email accounts of Clinton's top aides.

In a 10-page ruling issued Tuesday, Mehta — an Obama appointee — agreed.

"To date, State has searched only data compilations originating from outside sources — Secretary Clinton, her former aides, and the FBI. ... It has not, however, searched the one records system over which it has always had control and that is almost certain to contain some responsive records: the state.gov e-mail server," Mehta wrote.

"If Secretary Clinton sent an e-mail about Benghazi to Abedin, Mills, or Sullivan at his or her state.gov e-mail address, or if one of them sent an e-mail to Secretary Clinton using his or her state.gov account, then State’s server presumably would have captured and stored such an e-mail. Therefore, State has an obligation to search its own server for responsive records."

Justice Department lawyers representing State argued that making them search other employees' accounts for Clinton's emails would set a bad precedent that would belabor other FOIA searches.

But Mehta said the circumstances surrounding Clinton's email represented "a specific fact pattern unlikely to arise in the future."

A central premise of Mehta's ruling is that the State Department's servers archived emails from Clinton's top aides. However, it's not clear that happened regularly or reliably.

State Department officials have said there was no routine, automated archiving of official email during Clinton's tenure. Some officials did copy their mailboxes from time to time and put archived message folders on desktop computers or servers, so State may still have some messages from the aides, but the FBI may already have acquired some of those messages during its inquiry.

A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the judge's decision. A Justice Department spokesman said: "We are reviewing the judge's opinion and order."

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I get the meme and all, but the American people really should know what was said in those emails.

oh ffs
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Maybe they'll find something the 8th time!
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helIy posted...

oh ffs

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She lost. Why does anyone still care?
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Golden Road posted...

She lost. Why does anyone still care?

Because she didn't leave the country in disgrace?...
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Golden Road posted...

She lost. Why does anyone still care?

People should pay for their crimes regardless of whether or not they're in the public spotlight. Not saying she committed any criminal acts, but "she's not important anymore who cares" is a really dumb reason not to investigate.

this is like the 6th investigation

no one can find anything in her emails, no one can find anything with trump and Russia it's all really fucking stupid at this point
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helIy posted...

this is like the 6th investigation

no one can find anything in her emails, no one can find anything with trump and Russia it's all really fucking stupid at this point

The only way they'll get their result is to fudge it like a kangaroo court Stalin would do.
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Golden Road posted...

She lost. Why does anyone still care?

Because it actually wasn't a political stunt, it's genuine concern.

helIy posted...

this is like the 6th investigation

no one can find anything in her emails, no one can find anything with trump and Russia it's all really fucking stupid at this point

WastelandCowboy posted...

the search wasn't good enough because State never tried to search its own systems for relevant messages in the official email accounts of Clinton's top aides.

If it was properly thorough the first time then there wouldn't be other places to look.

Idgaf if there're records or not (and I assume they would've been wiped by now if they ever existed) but it's pretty dumb to let it slide because the investigative team failed to search well enough to satisfy doubt.

This is effectively Iraq/Afghanistan/ISIS in digital form, the US half-assing a short job and extending their workload 20x for such incompetence.
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i hate hillary as much as the next guy, but can we just like not waste our time?
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Investigate Russia (fired)
Investigate Clinton (fired)
Investigate Manafort (fired)
Investigate Clinton again (fired)
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Ain't gonna find nothing.
Just like they ain't gonna impeach Trump over anything Russian related.
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