JUDICIAL WATCH 08/10/2017 IT'S HILLARY'S TIME TO 'PAY THE PIPER!'

Judicial Watch announced that on August 8, 2017, D.C. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the State Department “to search the state.gov e-mail accounts of Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jacob Sullivan,” former aides of Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. The State Department is ordered to search in those accounts “for records responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] March 4, 2015, FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request.” (A separate Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit first broke open the Clinton email scandal.) READ MORE

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08/10/2017 Judge orders State Dept. to search state.gov accounts for Clinton aides' Benghazi emails Source: Fox News A federal judge has ordered the State Department to search the “state.gov” email accounts of Hillary Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jacob Sullivan for records related to Benghazi, as part of a watchdog’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Amit Mehta made the call Tuesday, describing the FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch in March 2015 as “a far cry from a typical FOIA case.” READ MORE 08/10/2017 Judge orders new search for Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails Source: The Hill A federal judge ordered the State Department on Tuesday to resume its search for emails and other records related to the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in which four Americans died. D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the agency has not fulfilled its duty in properly searching for all relevant documents related to the attack in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans lost their lives. READ MORE 08/10/2017 Federal Judge Revives Search for More Clinton Benghazi Emails Source: Independent Review Journal The election might be over, but former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton still isn’t off the hook for her Benghazi emails. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, ruled Tuesday that the State Department still hasn’t done enough to absolve Clinton of wrongdoing over the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound, according to Politico. READ MORE

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“This major court ruling may finally result in more answers about the Benghazi scandal – and Hillary Clinton’s involvement in it – as we approach the attack’s fifth anniversary. It is remarkable that we had to battle both the Obama and Trump administrations to break through the State Department’s Benghazi stonewall. Why are Secretary Tillerson and Attorney General Sessions wasting taxpayer dollars protecting Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration?” - Tom Fitton   Judicial Watch President