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Judge orders Clinton aides to be questioned under oath on emails
Jonathan Allen, Reuters 6 hours ago
By Jonathan Allen
(Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. State Department officials and aides to Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about whether the former secretary of state's use of a private email system was an effort to skirt open records laws.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is likely to add to the uncertainty hovering over Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the November U.S. presidential election, about the legal consequences of her decision to exclusively use a private email server in her New York home for her government work.
The State Department and Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group suing for records about the employment of a senior Clinton aide, must agree on a plan for the depositions by April, Sullivan said in his order on Tuesday, according to court documents.
Sullivan, a judge in federal court in Washington, D.C., said there was at least "a reasonable suspicion" that open records laws were undermined, The Washington Post reported. Sullivan, who was appointed by Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, said he may order the department to subpoena Clinton to return all records connected to her private email server, the newspaper reported.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/u-judge-orders-discovery-clinton-email-lawsuit-report-194139430.html
I think this is a very interesting development. This could mean before the nomination process is over, that Clinton aides could be in a position to plead the 5th to protect themselves, which would be immensely damaging to Clinton's campaign.
What do you guys think will happen here, will her aides plead the 5th, or give testimony that could help Clinton by being under oath, and stating that their was no wrong doing here?
Jonathan Allen, Reuters 6 hours ago
By Jonathan Allen
(Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. State Department officials and aides to Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about whether the former secretary of state's use of a private email system was an effort to skirt open records laws.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is likely to add to the uncertainty hovering over Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the November U.S. presidential election, about the legal consequences of her decision to exclusively use a private email server in her New York home for her government work.
The State Department and Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group suing for records about the employment of a senior Clinton aide, must agree on a plan for the depositions by April, Sullivan said in his order on Tuesday, according to court documents.
Sullivan, a judge in federal court in Washington, D.C., said there was at least "a reasonable suspicion" that open records laws were undermined, The Washington Post reported. Sullivan, who was appointed by Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, said he may order the department to subpoena Clinton to return all records connected to her private email server, the newspaper reported.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/u-judge-orders-discovery-clinton-email-lawsuit-report-194139430.html
I think this is a very interesting development. This could mean before the nomination process is over, that Clinton aides could be in a position to plead the 5th to protect themselves, which would be immensely damaging to Clinton's campaign.
What do you guys think will happen here, will her aides plead the 5th, or give testimony that could help Clinton by being under oath, and stating that their was no wrong doing here?
