Legal group poised to quiz Clinton aides about email server

[karynnj]

10. Who they are adds insult to injury, but unfortunately it is Clinton's actions that put them in

a position to actually depose high level State Department officials. This specifically will not deal with issues like were emails classified or should Blumenthal have had access to them. They have a NARROW area they are allowed to ask questions on -- but one that could be very troublesome.

Because they had many FOIA requests that could not be correctly complied with when Clinton was SoS or for at least the first 2 years Kerry was because Clinton did not archive the State Department emails - either on a real time basis or en mass when she left. She did so ONLY when the SD, at the highest level, demanded she do so in 2014 -- and they took over 6 months to actually get the emails - on paper - to the State Department. (HRC is being disingenuous when she claims that it was her choice to make all of these emails public. Note that she did NOT do so until the emails that her team sorted were with the SD and stories emerged of what the problem had been in the SD seeming inability to get her emails out under various legal requests. That "make them public, put them online" was to distract from having hid them for as much as 6 years. )

Note that the allowed questioning goes to the motivation of why Clinton set up this unique private server. (To me, where they are going is obvious - the intent was to stonewall legitimate transparency requests - and that does not seem a far reach to me.) The questions then will be whether cover up was illegal.

It is galling that this RW attack website actually does have standing to question the list of people agreed to -- and depending on what they get, they will seek to go higher any way they can justify. You can attack the judge who allowed this, but obviously the State Department lawyers were able to limit, but not end this -- and I assume that they have very good lawyers for such things.

For me, while I have no desire for Clinton to be embarrassed, I am far more concerned that this entire mess -- totally stemming from Clinton having no concern for rules and policy -- may end up reflecting on Obama or causing him and Secretary Kerry to waste time on this rather than dealing with real world problems.