Federal Judge Blasts State Department Cover Up of Hillary Email Scandal

David Harris Jr & Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch has revealed how the judge raked the State Department lawyers over the coals. He literally destroyed them. Judicial Watch had filed for additional discovery, which Judge Royce Lamberth granted. The State Department lawyer said that JW had to prove why more discovery was needed since discovery had already been closed. Lamberth stopped them in their tracks by saying that he never closed discovery. When the State Department lawyers tried a new tack, he stopped them in their tracks and said not only he had not closed discovery, but the evidence found by JW seemed to indicate either a coverup or complete incompetence by the State Department.

Lamberth said:

“There is no FOIA exemption for political expedience, 

nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence.”

Via Judicial Watch:

Judge Lamberth also criticized the State Department’s handling and production of Clinton’s emails in this case stating, “There is no FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] exemption for political expedience, nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence.”

In the beginning of their oral arguments, lawyers for the State Department wrongfully stated that Judicial Watch could no longer continue their discovery. The court stopped their arguments saying that Judicial Watch can continue to find more evidence in this case:

STATE DEPARTMENT: … it is, of course, Judicial Watch’s burden to explain to Your Honor why there has been good cause to reopen discovery now that discovery has closed in this case.

THE COURT: Well, I didn’t close discovery. So your premise is wrong.

STATE DEPARTMENT: Fair enough, Your Honor. Whether you want to call it closed or not, it is still —

THE COURT: I didn’t close it. I said I would have a status after they took this initial discovery, and that’s what I’m doing today. I didn’t close discovery.

STATE DEPARTMENT: That’s right, Your Honor, but it is still Judicial Watch’s —

THE COURT: So they don’t need any good cause —

STATE DEPARTMENT: Whether

THE COURT: — Today the good cause continues from whether or not State was acting in good faith, and I’ll tell you everything they’ve discovered in this period raises serious questions about what the hell the State Department’s doing here.