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Judge rules for Clinton on emails

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A federal judge on Friday sided with the State Department against a conservative legal advocacy group trying to speed up the government's release of some Hillary Clinton emails.Judge Amit Mehta said that it would be “unwise and potentially risky” to order the government to quickly release 242 emails specifically related to the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Those emails — along with tens of thousands of others — are already on pace to be released by next February, as result of a separate lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, said Mehta, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The best solution would be “to keep this on course,” Mehta said, since the government has already “made concrete commitments” in the other case.

The decision is a blow to Judicial Watch, the right-leaning legal group that has filed more than 40 lawsuits over the Clinton emails.
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The summer campaign issue that is slowly going to completely die.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
A federal judge on Friday sided with the State Department against a conservative legal advocacy group trying to speed up the government's release of some Hillary Clinton emails.Judge Amit Mehta said that it would be “unwise and potentially risky” to order the government to quickly release 242 emails specifically related to the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya.
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Why? After all, it's not like they're potentially classified, right?


The summer campaign issue that is slowly going to completely die.
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.....your argument is that, by ensuring a drip-drip that extends further into the future, this judge is helping the Clinton campaign put this issue behind them?
 
cpwill said:
Why? After all, it's not like they're potentially classified, right?




.....your argument is that, by ensuring a drip-drip that extends further into the future, this judge is helping the Clinton campaign put this issue behind them?
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The issue has ran its course.
 
"What difference does it make?" in 5...4...3...2...
 
joG said:
That is exactly what they said of Nixon's problems before the election. The later embarrassment for the country was unpleasant. You know?
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Everything is comparable to Nixon
 
TheDemSocialist said:
The issue has ran its course.
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You really don't believe that isn't more bad info coming do you? I have a feeling this is only the beginning.

This is one of dozens of suits. In another the judge, appointed by Obama, told them to get off their butts and get the emails processed.
 
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joG said:
Everything?
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In US politics, just about. Any "scandal" always must be compared to Nixon and even have its own "Watergate". "Benghazigate". "Emailgate". "Climategate". Etc.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
The issue has ran its course.
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The FBI is expanding it's investigation. FELONIES were committed, TDS. Not in the fevered imaginations of right wingers who hate Hillary. In reality. On paper.
 
cpwill said:
The FBI is expanding it's investigation. FELONIES were committed, TDS. Not in the fevered imaginations of right wingers who hate Hillary. In reality. On paper.
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Get back to us when something happens. The hunt against Hillary is laughable, and I don't even want her to win.
 
cpwill said:
The FBI is expanding it's investigation. FELONIES were committed, TDS. Not in the fevered imaginations of right wingers who hate Hillary. In reality. On paper.
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So felonies were committed? The FBI found that? OR are they investigating to find out IF a crime was committed?
 
cpwill said:
The FBI is expanding it's investigation. FELONIES were committed, TDS.
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See, that's a common problem right there.

No. "Investigating whether felonies were committed" =/= "felonies were committed"

If Clinton is convicted of felonies, then you can say that Clinton committed felonies.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
In US politics, just about. Any "scandal" always must be compared to Nixon and even have its own "Watergate". "Benghazigate". "Emailgate". "Climategate". Etc.
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Only where you are uninformed of the history of the Nixon progression. But it fits quite nicely in this case with the early suspicion corruption never convincingly explained away and later disrepect of the law leading to crime.
 
fmw said:
Not until people start voting.
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:lamo What? How is actively and openly and aggressively campaigning before the primaries not "election season"? How is the time when primary debates are going on not "election season"?
 
TheDemSocialist said:
So felonies were committed?
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Yes. Putting classified information on an unclassified system is a felony. Sending classified information over unclassified networks is a felony. Storing it on an unclassified server is a felony. Transferring it to non-cleared personnel is a felony. Delaying turning it back over to government authorities is a felony. People who work with classified material sign life-long contracts with the US Government acknowledging this, and receive initial and then annual retraining in incredibly painful detail on it.

The FBI found that?
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Actually the Inspector General for the IC and the IG for State found that. The FBI is investigating the circumstances behind that, although they have now apparently expanded their investigation to "materially false" statements made by Clinton and her aides to investigators, which is in and of itself a separate felony.


I honestly have no idea how this ends. The idea that an all-but nominee by one of the major parties actually gets brought up on charges during the middle of a campaign boggles the mind; it seems completely implausible, though legally correct. One is tempted immediately to some kind of conspiratorial Hillary-Agrees-To-Sacrifice-An-Aide-Whom-The-Obama-Administration-Then-Prosecutes kind of solution.... but that's as baseless in supporting evidence as any other conspiracy theory. I do know that if I had done any of this, I would be in jail already. :shrug:
 
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cpwill said:
Yes. Putting classified information on an unclassified system is a felony. Sending classified information over unclassified networks is a felony. Storing it on an unclassified server is a felony. Transferring it to non-cleared personnel is a felony. Delaying turning it back over to government authorities is a felony. People who work with classified material sign life-long contracts with the US Government acknowledging this, and receive initial and then annual retraining in incredibly painful detail on it.



Actually the Inspector General for the IC and the IG for State found that. The FBI is investigating the circumstances behind that, although they have now apparently expanded their investigation to "materially false" statements made by Clinton and her aides to investigators, which is in and of itself a separate felony.


I honestly have no idea how this ends. The idea that an all-but nominee by one of the major parties actually gets brought up on charges during the middle of a campaign boggles the mind; it seems completely implausible, though legally correct. One is tempted immediately to some kind of conspiratorial Hillary-Agrees-To-Sacrifice-An-Aide-Whom-The-Obama-Administration-Then-Prosecutes kind of solution.... but that's as baseless in supporting evidence as any other conspiracy theory. I do know that if I had done any of this, I would be in jail already. :shrug:
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So if a felony was committed then what is the investigation? Where are the official charges?
 
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