Federal Court Orders Discovery to Begin on Clinton Email Scandal

Judicial Watch announced today that United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that discovery can

begin in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers

and Clinton aides will now be deposed under oath.

Senior officials, including:

Susan Rice - Ben Rhodes - Jacob Sullivan and FBI official E.W. Priestap, will now have to answer Judicial Watch’s written questions under oath.

The court rejected the DOJ and State Department’s objections to Judicial Watch’s court-ordered discovery

plan. (The court, in ordering a discovery plan last month, ruled that the Clinton email system was “one of

the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”)

Judicial Watch’s discovery will seek answers to:

Whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a non-

government email system; whether the State Department’s efforts to settle this case beginning in late 2014

amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department adequately searched for records responsive to

Judicial Watch’s FOIA request.

Discovery is scheduled to be completed within 120 days. The court will hold a post-discovery hearing to

determine if Judicial Watch may also depose additional witnesses, including Clinton and her former Chief of

Staff Cheryl Mills.

Judge Lamberth ordered written responses under oath to Judicial Watch’s questions from Obama administration

senior officials Rice, Rhodes and Sullivan, and former FBI official Priestap. Rice and Rhodes will answer

interrogatories under oath on the Benghazi scandal. Rejecting the State and Justice Department objections

to discovery on the infamous Benghazi talking points, Judge Lamberth reiterated:

Yet Rice’s talking points and State’s understanding of the attack play an unavoidably central role in this

case: information about the points’ development and content, as well as their discussion and dissemination

before and after Rice’s appearances could reveal unsearched, relevant records; State’s role in the points’

content and development could shed light on Clinton’s motives for shielding her emails from FOIA requesters

or on State’s reluctance to search her emails.

Judicial Watch also may serve interrogatories on Monica Hanley, a former staff member in the State

Department’s Office of the Secretary, and on Lauren Jiloty, Clinton’s former special assistant.

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