A federal judge has ruled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must sit for a sworn deposition concerning the private email account she used while in office, Fox News reports.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth on Monday issued the order in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch, which is seeking emails concerning the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya, according to Politico. The Court previously ordered Clinton to submit a sworn written statement about her use of a private email account for personal and work-related correspondence during her four years in former President Barack Obama's Cabinet.
"The Court GRANTS Judicial Watch's request to depose Secretary Clinton on matters concerning her reasons for using a private server and her understanding of State's records management obligations," Lamberth wrote, according to Law & Crime.
"Although discovery in FOIA cases is rare, the Court again reminds the government that it was State's mishandling of this case – which was either the result of bureaucratic incompetence or motivated by bad faith – that opened discovery in the first place," the order reads. "Discovery up until this point has brought to light a noteworthy amount of relevant information, but Judicial Watch requests an additional round of discovery, and understandably so. With each passing round of discovery, the Court is left with more questions than answers."
The order notes Judicial Watch revealed in December the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released "approximately 30 previously undisclosed Clinton emails," and "State failed to fully explain the new emails' origins when the Court directly questioned where they came from."
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