Tim Brown – “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” These are the now famous words of the late Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) when he referenced President Richard Nixon concerning the Watergate scandal. Now, a federal court has ruled the State Department must turn over Hillary Clinton’s emails that detail Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah’s response to Benghazi, and just maybe we will have documented evidence of what he knew and when he knew it.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ordered the U.S. Department of State to turn over to Judicial Watch “eight identical paragraphs” of previously redact material in two September 13, 2012, Hillary Clinton emails regarding phone calls made by President Barack Obama to Egyptian and Libyan leaders immediately following the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.
The subject line of both emails was “Quick Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt.” These emails were stored on Clinton’s illegal email server.
Jackson ruled in Judicial Watch’s favor saying that the government not been properly withheld under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption.
According to her ruling, “the two records, even if just barely predecisional, are not deliberative. [The State Department] has pointed to very little to support its characterization of these two records as deliberative, and the Court’s in camera review of the documents reveals that they do not fall within that category.” Continue reading →