Court asked to rule Clinton emails involved ‘misconduct’
The newest legal move by
Judicial Watch, which was at the center of exposing the emails from the beginning, is asking a court to rule that the State Department should released withheld emails because they pertain to government “misconduct.”
The organization confirmed this week in a lawsuit that dates back to 2015 that it is asking a federal court to reject State Department secrecy claims “over certain Clinton email-related document on the grounds that the documents relate to government misconduct.”
The lawsuit, launched in May last year, seeks emails “sent or received by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her official capacity as secretary of state, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to Secretary Clinton regarding her non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
Judicial Watch argues the emails should be released because “Clinton’s email practices at the State Department constitute misconduct.”“
The U.S. federal government has produced two State Department Inspector General reports and a report following an FBI investigation, which collectively support the conclusion that, at a minimum, the unofficial server arrangement was misconduct
even if it was not a prosecutable violation of criminal law. … Clinton herself has called the unofficial server arrangement a ‘mistake,'” the organization said.